Pepperidge Farm Copycat Recipes
Pepperidge Farm was founded in 1937 by Margaret Rudkin on her family's estate in Fairfield, Connecticut — named for the pepperidge tree on the property. Rudkin started baking stone-ground whole-wheat bread for her son's allergies and grew rapidly from local stores to national distribution. Campbell Soup Company acquired Pepperidge Farm in 1961 for about $28 million. The European-inspired cookie collection, launched in the mid-1950s with each variety named for a city — Bordeaux, Geneva, Brussels, Naples, Milano — is the most iconic part of the brand's portfolio. The Milano began as a single chocolate-striped oval wafer called Naples; as the widely repeated story goes, it became a sandwich when warm-weather shipping fused two wafers together with the chocolate between them. A standard 7-oz bag of Milanos retails for about $5.50–7.00 at most grocery stores.
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