plit Seconds. That was the name of the winning cookie entry in 1954’s Pillsbury Bake-Off cookie category, and it lured me in immediately. They are like jam thumb-prints but, as the name implies, they are quick to make. Instead of molding dozens of tiny dough balls, making a depression in each, and filling the hollows with jam, I divided the buttery dough into only four portions, rolled each into a long rope, and placed them on a cookie sheet. I then made a channel down the length of each and filled the channels with jam
