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The American Cookie Story by Nancy Baggett. Early Cookies: Hard Gingerbread— Unleavened Cookies. Macaroons—Leavened with Egg Whites. Marguerites—Leavened with Egg Whites. New Year’s Cakes, Springerle-- Unleavened. Jumbals, Jumbles. America’s First Cookbook. First American “ Cookey ”.
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First American “Cookey” Amelia Simmons, American Cookery, 1796 Another Christmas Cookey To three pound flour, sprinkle a tea cup of fine powdered coriander seed, rub in one pound butter, and one and half pound sugar, dissolve three tea spoonfuls of pearl ash in a tea cup of milk, kneed all together well, roll three quarters of an inch thick, and cut or stamp into shape and size you please, bake slowly fifteen or twenty minutes; tho' hard and dry at first, if put into an earthern pot, and dry cellar, or damp room, they will be finer, softer and better when six months old.
Chemical Leavenings:Baking Soda • Founded 1846. Dr. Austin Church and his brother-in-law John E. Dwight, who had been making and packaging baking soda in Dwight's kitchen. In 1867, two sons of Church formed Church & Co. The Arm & Hammer trademark dates from that year; Church & Co. acquired a spice and mustard business, Vulcan Spice Mills, that used an arm and hammer logo.
First Chocolate Cookie CHOCOLATE MACAROONS. Put a quarter of a pound of chocolate on a time-plate over a coal fire, and when it is dissolved pour it on a plate; put to it a spoonful or two of sweet almond paste, made as for macaroons, stir it in well, and then pour it upon the remainder of the almond paste, in which you have mixed a teaspoonful of powdered cinnamon or vanilla, or both: beat them together well in a mortar, lay them on paper, and bake them for three-quarters of an hour in a moderate oven. • From: The Cook’s Own Book (Boston,1832), by Mrs. N. K. M. Lee, copied from Cook’s Dictionary and Housekeeper’s Directory, by Richard Dolby.
Food Icons:The Quaker Oats Man One of the earliest American food icons: He was familiar to American consumers by 1893.
First Oatmeal Cookie in America OATMEAL SNAPS (SCOTCH PERKINS) 16 lbs flour 6 ½ lbs oatmeal 4 lbs sugar 4 lbs lard ¾ lb soda 3 oz ammonia l lb allspice 6 ½ qts molasses Wash on the top with egg; cut small and pan loosely, as they spread a great deal. The Complete Bread, Cake and Cracker Baker, 1881
Modern Peanut Butter Cookies The 1933 Pillsbury's Balanced Recipes contains a Peanut Butter Balls recipe with instructions to roll the dough into balls and press them down with the tines of a fork.
Lowney’s Brownies • Lowney’s Brownies • ½ cup butter • 1 cup sugar • 2 squares Lowney’s Premium Chocolate • 2 eggs • ½ cup nut meats • ½ cup flour • ¼ teaspoon salt • Cream butter, add remaining ingredients, spread on buttered sheets, and bake 10 to fifteen minutes. Cut in squares as soon as teaken from oven. • Lowney’s Cookbook, 1907, The Walter M. Lowney Co.
Created in 1968 by the Chicago-based Leo Burnett Co., for Keebler, Ernie and his elf friends espoused the "uncommonly good” cookies from the Hollow Tree Bakery. Cookie Icon:Ernie the Keebler Elf
