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Definition of Cookies
1. cooky [n] - See also: cooky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cookies
Literary usage of Cookies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. School and Home Cooking by Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer (1920)
"LESSON CXLVII CAKE CONTAINING FAT — cookies Classes of cookies. — Cooky mixture
may be thin like a drop batter and dropped by spoonfuls on to a pan or it ..."
2. The Improved Housewife: Or, Book of Receipts; with Engravings for Marketing by A. L. Webster, A married lady (1847)
"New Year's cookies. Rub to a cream, three-quarters of a pound of butter, and a
pound of sugar ; add three well-beaten eggs, two spoonfuls of caraway seed, ..."
3. "Aunt Babette's" Cook Book: Foreign and Domestic Receipts for the Household by Bertha F. Kramer (1889)
"Mohn Maultaschen, ------ 352 Molasses cookies, 358 Nutmeg Cakes, ------- 359
Poppy Seed cookies, ------ 353 Sour Milk cookies, 348 Spice Wafers, ..."
4. Domestic Science by Bertha J. Hoisington Austin (1914)
"Principles: Boston cookies represent one type of cookies, namely, ... Such cookies
are called by the general term of drop cookies because they are dropped ..."
5. The Boston Cooking-school Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896)
"This recipe will make twenty-four cookies. Seed Cakes. Follow recipe for Cocoanut
Cream cookies, using; one and one-half tablespoons caraway seeds in place ..."
6. Public School Methods (1921)
"cookies. (a) RECITATION. Discuss proportions of flour and liquid in batters and
doughs ... Make drop cookies, hermits and rolled cookies, ginger snaps, etc. ..."
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