HISTORY of Cookies!
Where did cookies come from? IRAN
What is the origin of how cookies came to be?
A little cookie history: The first cookies were created by accident. Cooks used a small amount of cake batter to test their oven temperature before baking a large cake. These little test cakes were called "koekje", meaning "little cake" in Dutch.
Originally called "little cakes," cookies are made with sweet dough or batter, baked in single-sized servings and eaten out-of-hand. Perfect for snacking or as dessert, cookies are consumed in 95.2 percent of U.S. households. Americans alone consume over 2 billion cookies a year, or 300 cookies for each person annually.
Cookies are most often classified by method of preparation - drop, molded, pressed, refrigerated, bar and rolled. Their dominant ingredient, such as nut cookies, fruit cookies or chocolate cookies, can also classify them. Whether gourmet, soft or bite-sized cookies, new categories are always cropping up as the American appetite for cookies continues to grow.
History
The word cookie originally came from the Dutch keokje, meaning "little cake." In addition, the Dutch first popularized cookies in the United States. The British took a liking to them in the 19th century, incorporating them into their daily tea service and calling them biscuits or sweet buns, as they do in Scotland.
Sometime in the 1930s, so the story goes, a Massachusetts innkeeper ran out of nuts while making cookies. Therefore, she substituted a bar of baking chocolate, breaking it into pieces and adding the chunks of chocolate to the flour, butter and brown sugar dough. The Toll House Cookie, so named after the inn in which it was served, was a hit.
Historians credit the innkeeper, Ruth Wakefield, with inventing what has since become an American classic - the chocolate chip cookie.
The earliest cookie-style cakes are thought to date back to seventh-century Persia, one of the first countries to cultivate sugar. There are six basic cookie styles, any of which can range from tender-crisp to soft. A drop cookie is made by dropping spoonfuls of dough onto a baking sheet. Bar cookies are created when a batter or soft dough is spooned into a shallow pan, then baked, cooled and cut into bars.
Hand-formed (or molded) cookies are made by shaping dough by hand into small balls, logs, crescents and other shapes.
Pressed cookies are formed by pressing dough through a COOKIE PRESS (or PASTRY BAG) to form fancy shapes and designs.
Refrigerator (or icebox) cookies are made by shaping the dough into a log, which is refrigerated until firm, then sliced and baked. Rolled cookies begin by using a rolling pin to roll the dough out flat; then it is cut into decorative shapes with COOKIE CUTTERS or a pointed knife.
Other cookies, such as the German SPRINGERLE, are formed by imprinting designs on the dough, either by rolling a special decoratively carved rolling pin over it or by pressing the dough into a carved COOKIE MOLD. In England, cookies are called biscuits , in Spain they're galletas , Germans call them keks, in Italy they're biscotti and so on.
The first American cookie was originally brought to this country by the English, Scots, and Dutch immigrants. Our simple "butter cookies" strongly resemble the English tea cakes and the Scotch shortbread.
The Southern colonial housewife took great pride in her cookies, almost always called simply "tea cakes." These were often flavored with nothing more than the finest butter, sometimes with the addition of a few drops of rose water.
In earlier American cookbooks, cookies were given no space of their own but were listed at the end of the cake chapter. They were called by such names as "Jumbles," "Plunkets," and "Cry Babies." The names were extremely puzzling and whimsical.
There are hundreds upon hundreds of cookie recipes in the United States. No one book could hold the recipes for all the various types of cookies
What day is cookie Day? National Cookie Day- DECEMBER 4th!
Introduction
Welcome Historians! Today we are learning about how cookies came to be and where in the world are they from. As we go through today's lesson, we will be able to really go in-depth about how cookies are and have came into our lives. We will learn about the basic skills about how a cookie is made and how the cookies have evolved through the history of mankind. For today's class activity we will use the handout provided along with the poster boards to help your assigned groups really help each other with the history and evolution of cookies came to be. Your groups will present the assignment at the end of the class period to share along with your other classmates .
TASK
Students will need to complete an assigned worksheet provided by me. They will be allowed to work in group of 3-5 students so that they assignment can be completed much easier for the whole class. I will be assisting everyone with the work, to make sure they follow instructions that I have provided. They are to answer the following questions that are at the top of the page. They will also use the poster board to draw their own cookie and present it to the classroom at the end of the class period.
Where did cookies come from? IRAN
What is the origin of how cookies came to be?
A little cookie history: The first cookies were created by accident. Cooks used a small amount of cake batter to test their oven temperature before baking a large cake. These little test cakes were called "koekje", meaning "little cake" in Dutch.
Originally called "little cakes," cookies are made with sweet dough or batter, baked in single-sized servings and eaten out-of-hand. Perfect for snacking or as dessert, cookies are consumed in 95.2 percent of U.S. households. Americans alone consume over 2 billion cookies a year, or 300 cookies for each person annually.
Cookies are most often classified by method of preparation - drop, molded, pressed, refrigerated, bar and rolled. Their dominant ingredient, such as nut cookies, fruit cookies or chocolate cookies, can also classify them. Whether gourmet, soft or bite-sized cookies, new categories are always cropping up as the American appetite for cookies continues to grow.
History
The word cookie originally came from the Dutch keokje, meaning "little cake." In addition, the Dutch first popularized cookies in the United States. The British took a liking to them in the 19th century, incorporating them into their daily tea service and calling them biscuits or sweet buns, as they do in Scotland.
Sometime in the 1930s, so the story goes, a Massachusetts innkeeper ran out of nuts while making cookies. Therefore, she substituted a bar of baking chocolate, breaking it into pieces and adding the chunks of chocolate to the flour, butter and brown sugar dough. The Toll House Cookie, so named after the inn in which it was served, was a hit.
Historians credit the innkeeper, Ruth Wakefield, with inventing what has since become an American classic - the chocolate chip cookie.
The earliest cookie-style cakes are thought to date back to seventh-century Persia, one of the first countries to cultivate sugar. There are six basic cookie styles, any of which can range from tender-crisp to soft. A drop cookie is made by dropping spoonfuls of dough onto a baking sheet. Bar cookies are created when a batter or soft dough is spooned into a shallow pan, then baked, cooled and cut into bars.
Hand-formed (or molded) cookies are made by shaping dough by hand into small balls, logs, crescents and other shapes.
Pressed cookies are formed by pressing dough through a COOKIE PRESS (or PASTRY BAG) to form fancy shapes and designs.
Refrigerator (or icebox) cookies are made by shaping the dough into a log, which is refrigerated until firm, then sliced and baked. Rolled cookies begin by using a rolling pin to roll the dough out flat; then it is cut into decorative shapes with COOKIE CUTTERS or a pointed knife.
Other cookies, such as the German SPRINGERLE, are formed by imprinting designs on the dough, either by rolling a special decoratively carved rolling pin over it or by pressing the dough into a carved COOKIE MOLD. In England, cookies are called biscuits , in Spain they're galletas , Germans call them keks, in Italy they're biscotti and so on.
The first American cookie was originally brought to this country by the English, Scots, and Dutch immigrants. Our simple "butter cookies" strongly resemble the English tea cakes and the Scotch shortbread.
The Southern colonial housewife took great pride in her cookies, almost always called simply "tea cakes." These were often flavored with nothing more than the finest butter, sometimes with the addition of a few drops of rose water.
In earlier American cookbooks, cookies were given no space of their own but were listed at the end of the cake chapter. They were called by such names as "Jumbles," "Plunkets," and "Cry Babies." The names were extremely puzzling and whimsical.
There are hundreds upon hundreds of cookie recipes in the United States. No one book could hold the recipes for all the various types of cookies
What day is cookie Day? National Cookie Day- DECEMBER 4th!
Introduction
Welcome Historians! Today we are learning about how cookies came to be and where in the world are they from. As we go through today's lesson, we will be able to really go in-depth about how cookies are and have came into our lives. We will learn about the basic skills about how a cookie is made and how the cookies have evolved through the history of mankind. For today's class activity we will use the handout provided along with the poster boards to help your assigned groups really help each other with the history and evolution of cookies came to be. Your groups will present the assignment at the end of the class period to share along with your other classmates .
TASK
Students will need to complete an assigned worksheet provided by me. They will be allowed to work in group of 3-5 students so that they assignment can be completed much easier for the whole class. I will be assisting everyone with the work, to make sure they follow instructions that I have provided. They are to answer the following questions that are at the top of the page. They will also use the poster board to draw their own cookie and present it to the classroom at the end of the class period.
CONCLUSION
Today we have learned where cookies have came from and where they originated. Cookies are important to kids because they love to eat them. I wanted to give the students an insight on where it came from and for them to learn the HISTORY of the cookies. They didn't just appear out of no where, so I wanted to give the kids an insight about how cookies are apart of our lives and may have been apart of our generations past life. The country that it came from is quite different from here, why did they invent cookies, and how far along did the cookie come from? Students will now have better understanding about the general cookie.
CREDITS/MATERIALS/REFERENCES
http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/CookieHistory.htm
Poster Board/Scissors/Markers/ etc...
http://youtu.be/VaT3qsoHPQ8
http://www.kitchenproject.com/history/cookies.htm
Today we have learned where cookies have came from and where they originated. Cookies are important to kids because they love to eat them. I wanted to give the students an insight on where it came from and for them to learn the HISTORY of the cookies. They didn't just appear out of no where, so I wanted to give the kids an insight about how cookies are apart of our lives and may have been apart of our generations past life. The country that it came from is quite different from here, why did they invent cookies, and how far along did the cookie come from? Students will now have better understanding about the general cookie.
CREDITS/MATERIALS/REFERENCES
http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/CookieHistory.htm
Poster Board/Scissors/Markers/ etc...
http://youtu.be/VaT3qsoHPQ8
http://www.kitchenproject.com/history/cookies.htm
