[Sca-cooks] : Sca-cooks digest, cookie

[Terry Decker]

One would probably need to look in the 16th and 17th Century Dutch
cookbooks, as the word derives from the Dutch for "little cakes."  And I
suspect they will be closer toe the various Elizabethean "fine cakes" or
"little cakes" recipes than the modern "cookie."

Bear


>It's worth noting that the term "cookie" is probably out of period in
>English. There are period recipes that produce things that someone
>might decribe as a cookie, although I can't think of any that come
>very close to what I see as the "generic cookie"--i.e. something
>similar to a chocolate chip cookie, a peanut butter cookie, or the
>like.
>--
>David/Cariadoc
>http://www.daviddfriedman.com/