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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 07, 1998

Page

16

The Cookie Story and the Oreo Invention Timeline

In 1902 the first animal crackers were sold in the United States and packed in small boxes resembling circus cages with animals. In 1912 the Oreo debuted as the world’s most popular cookie though its naming origin remains uncertain.

United States

Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies Origin and Recipe

Ruth Wakefield in Massachusetts created Toll House Cookies by adding chocolate morsels to a butter based dough. The recipe uses flour, baking soda, salt, butter, sugars, vanilla, eggs, morsels, and nuts with steps for mixing, shaping, and baking at 375 degrees. Makes about five dozen cookies and Nestlé recommends butter.

Ruth Wakefield Massachusetts Toll House Nestlé Toll House

Spice Cookies and Molasses Cookies from a Home Kitchen

Simple cookie recipes listed with ingredients and steps. Spice cookies use cake mix whipped topping egg and powdered sugar baked 350 for 10 to 15 minutes yields about 3 1/2 dozen. Molasses cookies mix butter sugar molasses egg flour spices bake 7 to 8 minutes yields about 5 dozen.

Potato Chip Cookies

A simple potato chip cookie recipe uses butter sugar and vanilla whipped smooth then folded with crushed chips and flour. The dough is formed into small balls placed on an ungreased sheet pressed flat with sugared glass and baked at 350 degrees for 16 to 18 minutes yielding about two dozen cookies.

Shortbread Cookies How-To Card

Butter and sugar beaten until smooth. Flour added and mixed. Dough rolled into small balls placed on sheet and flattened. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. Yield about 24 cookies.

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