History of Cookies
History of Cookies
By: Chelsey Foreman
The first cookies were created by accident. Cooks used a small amount of cake batter to test their oven temperature before baking a large cake. The earliest cookie-style cakes are thought to date back to seventh-century Persia. Persia was one of the first countries to cultivate sugar. The word cookie originally came from the Dutch keokje, meaning “little cake”. Dutch first popularized cookies in the United States. The British incorporated them in the 19th century in their daily tea service and calling them biscuits or sweet buns, as they do in Scotland.
Sometime in the 1930s, a Massachusetts innkeeper ran out of nuts while making cookies. She substituted a bar of baking chocolate, breaking it into pieces and adding the chunks of chocolate to the flour, butter, and brown sugar dough. The Toll House Cookie was then invented and became a big hit. Ruth Wakefield was credited with inventing the chocolate chip cookie, an American Classic.
Cookies are made with sweet dough or batter, baked in single-sized servings and eaten out-of-hand. Perfect for snacking or as dessert, cookies are consumed in 95.2 percent of U.S. households. Americans alone consume over 2 billion cookies a year or 300 cookies for each person annually. Cookies are most often classified by method of preparation - drop, molded, pressed, refrigerated, bar and rolled. Their dominant ingredient, such as nut cookies, fruit cookies or chocolate cookies, can also classify them. Whether gourmet, soft or bite-sized cookies, new categories are always cropping up as the American appetite for cookies continues to grow.
A drop cookie is made by dropping spoonfuls of dough onto a baking sheet. Bar cookies are created when a batter or soft dough is spooned into a shallow pan, then baked, cooled and cut into bars. Hand-formed cookies are made by shaping dough by hand into small balls, logs, crescents and other shapes. Pressed cookies are formed by pressing dough through a
By: Chelsey Foreman
The first cookies were created by accident. Cooks used a small amount of cake batter to test their oven temperature before baking a large cake. The earliest cookie-style cakes are thought to date back to seventh-century Persia. Persia was one of the first countries to cultivate sugar. The word cookie originally came from the Dutch keokje, meaning “little cake”. Dutch first popularized cookies in the United States. The British incorporated them in the 19th century in their daily tea service and calling them biscuits or sweet buns, as they do in Scotland.
Sometime in the 1930s, a Massachusetts innkeeper ran out of nuts while making cookies. She substituted a bar of baking chocolate, breaking it into pieces and adding the chunks of chocolate to the flour, butter, and brown sugar dough. The Toll House Cookie was then invented and became a big hit. Ruth Wakefield was credited with inventing the chocolate chip cookie, an American Classic.
Cookies are made with sweet dough or batter, baked in single-sized servings and eaten out-of-hand. Perfect for snacking or as dessert, cookies are consumed in 95.2 percent of U.S. households. Americans alone consume over 2 billion cookies a year or 300 cookies for each person annually. Cookies are most often classified by method of preparation - drop, molded, pressed, refrigerated, bar and rolled. Their dominant ingredient, such as nut cookies, fruit cookies or chocolate cookies, can also classify them. Whether gourmet, soft or bite-sized cookies, new categories are always cropping up as the American appetite for cookies continues to grow.
A drop cookie is made by dropping spoonfuls of dough onto a baking sheet. Bar cookies are created when a batter or soft dough is spooned into a shallow pan, then baked, cooled and cut into bars. Hand-formed cookies are made by shaping dough by hand into small balls, logs, crescents and other shapes. Pressed cookies are formed by pressing dough through a
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