Why are they called cookies if you bake them?!
Answers:
The word cookie comes from the Dutch word "koekje" meaning little cake.
In America, a cookie is described as a thin, sweet, usually small cake. By definition, a cookie can be any of a variety of hand-held, flour-based sweet cakes, either crisp or soft. Each country has its own word for "cookie." What we know as cookies are called biscuits in England and Australia, in Spain they're galletas, Germans call them keks or Pl?tzchen for Christmas cookies, and in Italy there are several names to identify various forms of cookies including amaretti and biscotti, and so on. The name cookie is derived from the Dutch word koekje, that originates from 1703 and means "small or little cake." Biscuit comes from the Latin word bis coctum, which means, "twice baked." According to culinary historians, the first historic record of cookies was their use as test cakes. A small amount of cake batter was baked to test the oven temperature
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read the questions in the cooking section once.
About 75% refer to baking as cooking.
Many many questions start out with " how long do I cook ____ and what temp should the oven be? or other versions of this question.
It bugs the heck out of me but maybe in other countries or other areas of this country (I am in the US) that is usual but for me it is not.
Because while your baking them they are cooking. ;) Never really thought about it though untill now.
They're called BISCUITS.
We should ask philosoraptor.
