We kids were always given the important job of forking on the crisscross pattern. Their recipes are written in longhand, on smudged cards or envelope backs and every time we bake them, a little bit of nostalgia gets mixed into the dough. I can’t hazard a guess as to how many cookies grandma, great grandma, and mom would have baked in a year. We have a clear glass jar, especially nice for seeing what sweets are available. My grandmother and great grandmother kept their freshly baked cookies in tins and crockery jars especially designed to allow little and big hands to reach in and pull out one or two at a time. One report by the New York Sun in the late 19 th century highlighted Ridgeway, Mich., with this: “a good housewife of this town kept count of cookies baked for her family in the past year - 49,05 total.” Every December, newspapers and magazines publish reader’s favorites. We can celebrate a National Cookie Day and National Homemade Cookie Month. Today, we have thousands of cookie recipes, shapes, ingredients. He simply wrote that it was “a small cake made from stiff, sweet dough rolled and sliced or dropped by spoonfuls onto a large flat pan and baked.”
Back in 1806 when Noah Webster began his dictionary-writing days, he probably didn’t have a clue as to what “cooky”, or cookie, would come to be in content, shape, and size.
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