Cookies originated in the Netherlands in the 1400s when the Dutch would test their oven temperatures using small pieces of cake batter called "koekje", which means "little cake". These early cookies were made without sugar. By the late 1400s, cookies were growing in popularity and could be bought in the streets of Paris. Dutch, English, and Scottish immigrants brought cookies to America in the 1600s. The first chocolate chip cookie was created by accident in 1937 by Ruth Wakefield when she substituted chocolate for nuts in her recipe. This became the famous Toll House cookie.

1. What is a cookie,
And where did it
come from?

2. Cookie: a small sweet cake.

3. Cookies are usually small,
round, flat and crisp!

4. There are many types
and kinds of cookies
today….
**** different cookies collage

5. But where did these
cookies come from?

6. The first cookie
was created by
accident!

7. The Dutch would test their
oven temperature by using
a small amount of cake
batter.

8. “Koekje” is what the
Dutch called it, AKA
“little cake”

9. The first cookies
were made without
sugar!

10. By the end of the 1400s they were
growing more popular!

11. You could buy them
in the streets of Paris.

12. They were mainly for traveling at first
because they stayed fresh for long
periods of time.

13. As people began traveling, cookies
were their main food source.

15. Dutch, English, and Scottish immigrants
brought cookies to the US in the 1600s.

16. Butter cookies today
resemble the first English
teacakes and Scottish
Shortbread.

17. By the 1700s Koekje evolved in the
word cookie or cookey.

18. British loved them, incorporating them
into their daily tea gatherings.

19. They would call them biscuits or sweet
buns.

20. Often only flavored with nothing more
than butter or a drop of rose water.

21. During the 17th and 18th centuries
cookies were baked at home as special
treats.

22. Sugar was very expensive
and a lot of labor was
put in to baking cookies.

23. The 19th century was huge
for baking cookies!

24. Sugar and flour
became affordable.

25. Chemical rising agents were developed.

26. Modern ovens
were introduced,
with thermostats!

27. This allowed for the creation
of many different types
of cookies!

28. Cookie recipes used to be hidden in the
back of the recipe books, but as things
became more modern, so did cook
books!

29. Cookies began to have
their own sections in
cookbooks!

30. Mainly cookies were baked
with nuts or raisins.

31. It wasn’t until 1937 when Ruth Wakefield
ran out of nuts.

32. She substituted with a bar of
baking chocolate.

33. This is where The Toll House Cookie
got its name!

34. From Ruth’s
Restaurant, The Toll
House Restaurant.

35. She and her husband owned an Inn that
was located next to a train track,
perfect for travelers.

36. Many travelers would stop and
eat at her restaurant.

37. Ruth’s cookies were becoming
well known.

38. With the help of
Betty Crocker, Ruth’s
cookies became
nationally known.

39. Betty Crocker had a radio station and
did a segment on “Famous Foods From
Famous Eating Places.”

40. In 1939 Ruth made
an agreement with
Nestle.

41. They could print her recipe on their package of chocolate!

42. They made a special new chocolate
bar that the recipe would be printed
on.

43. The new chocolate bar was scored; it
made for easy cutting at home.

44. In return she got a lifetime supply of
chocolate to bake her famous cookies!

45. In 1940 Ruth sold her legal rights of the
Toll House cookie to Nestle.

46. Forty years later….

47. Nestle lost its exclusive right
to the trademark in federal
court.

48. Now Tollhouse is known as a descriptive
term for a cookie.

49. Today more than half
the cookies baked at
home are chocolate
chip cookies.

50. Cookies are consumed in
95.2 percent of US households.

51. Americans alone consume over 2 billion cookies a year….

52. Or 300 Cookies for
each person annually!

53. Now you know when and where cookies
have evolved from!

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