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Nov 10 2007

A bite of cookie history

Published by Jennifer under Cookies, Food & Drink

(NC)-Derived from the Latin word bis coctum, which means “twice baked”, cookies have been a considered a tasty snack for hundreds of years. Culinary historians believe cookies were created as an oven temperature test. Early bakers would use very small amounts of cake batter to test their oven temperatures before baking the final cake.
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