Why are cookies called cookies?!
Why are cookies called cookies?
If you bake cookies, then why are they called cookies and not bakies? I like bakies better
Answers: you bake a pie and cake as well. It would be a little hard for me to drool while saying cakeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee like I do for cookies, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Mmmmmmmmmm Etymology: Dutch koekje, diminutive of koek cake
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The Dutch gave us the word for cookie--koeptji or koekje, which means "small cake." In 1627, the Dutch introduced holiday cookies to the North American continent through their early settlements in the New World.
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/food... It's the anglicised form of the Dutch word 'koekjes', meaning the same thing. In my case, they should be called "burnies".
Haha, no, just kidding. I think the word "cookie" is a variation of an old (Old English, maybe?) word meaning "biscuit".
Nope, wait...I just looked it up. It's from an old Dutch word, "koekje", which means "little biscuit". Also possibly derived from the German "kuchen" ("cake"). Well, actually cookies are called something different in every culture.
But, 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. The term "cookie" first appeared in print as long ago as 1703.
Its name derives from the Dutch word koekje or koekie which means little cake, and arrived in the English language through the Dutch in North America. It spread from American English to British English where biscuit is still the more general term.