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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1998
Page
13
Ancient bakers used pottery dishes and hot ashes to make cookies sweetened with honey. The term cookie may derive from the Dutch koekje meaning small cake. Sailors carried hard ship biscuits that needed soaking before eating.
By the 1870s cookie making machines were in use and cookies were packed in large barrels for sale in groceries. Customers ordered by the pound and carried them home in brown paper bags.
The article traces Girl Scout cookie history from 1912 when Daisy Low founded the organization to the 1950s image of girls baking cookies at home for sale. It notes cookies helped fund roughly half of Girl Scouts activities and recalls early Oklahoma troops baking the first cookies.
The invention of family-size cookie packages transformed the cookie and cracker industry. They could be sold nationwide, protected from sogginess and breakage, and placed in supermarkets as they are today.
The 1922 Girl Scouts printed a sugar cookie recipe for fundraising. Ingredients include butter or sugar, milk, eggs, vanilla, flour, and baking powder. Mix butter and sugar, add eggs and milk, flavor, then flour and baking powder. Roll thin bake at 375 degrees about 10 minutes and sprinkle with sugar. Makes six to seven dozen.
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