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A single recipe has kept this Toronto company in business for over 40 years

Yes, there really was a Mary Macleod. Today, her cookies pretty up the shelves at myriad retailers, finding their way into gift baskets and the mouths of the sweet-toothed masses. Founded in Toronto more than four decades ago, her company is a testament to the power of family, loyalty and, clearly, really good cookies. Of all the possessions that Mary Macleod brought to Canada when she arrived here from Scotland in 1957, her grandmother's shortbread recipe would end up being one of the most valuable.In 1981, that recipe became the backbone of Canada's first shortbread-only cookie shop, a company she named simply, Mary Macleod's Shortbread.     View this post on Instagram           A post shared by Mary Macleod's Shortbread (@mmshortbread)"She needed to support herself and her two sons," explains Sharon Grewal-Macleod, President of Mary Macleod's Shortbread and...


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