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Posted — UpdatedCouncil worked more than 20 years at her grandmother's restaurant, Mama Dip's.
"I used to go into the kitchen in between waiting on tables and mix up stuff," Council said in an interview with WRAL in 2013.
She started out trying to make cookies that tasted just like her grandmother's famous pecan pie. After many attempts, she came up with a pecan crisp cookie - light and full of flavor.
In an hour, she sold four dozen cookies from the dessert case at Mama Dip's.
Council wanted to keep filling the case at the front of the restaurant, so she kept baking.
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