Editing Cookie (section)

==History==
[[File:Thumbprint Cookies (7712226646).jpg|thumb|left|Thumbprint cookies]]
Cookie-like hard wafers have existed for as long as baking has been documented, in part because they survive travel very well, but they were usually not sweet enough to be considered cookies by modern standards.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodcookies.html|title=The Food Timeline: history notes--cookies, crackers & biscuits|author=Lynne Olver|work=foodtimeline.org|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717061521/http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodcookies.html|archive-date=2012-07-17|author-link=Lynne Olver}}</ref>

Cookies appear to have their origins in 7th century AD [[Persia]], shortly after the use of sugar became relatively common in the region.<ref name="thevintagenews.com"/><ref name="whatscookingamerica">{{cite web |url=http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/CookieHistory.htm |title=History of Cookies - Cookie History |publisher=Whatscookingamerica.net |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081104004501/http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/CookieHistory.htm |archive-date=2008-11-04 }}</ref> They spread to Europe through the [[Muslim conquest of Spain]].<ref name=":1" />{{Dubious|Cookies from Persia|date=March 2025}} By the 14th century, they were common in all levels of society throughout Europe, from royal cuisine to street vendors.<ref name=":1">{{cite web |title=History of Cookies |url=https://whatscookingamerica.net/History/CookieHistory.htm |website=whatscookingamerica.net |date=28 June 2015 |access-date=7 February 2021}}</ref> The first documented instance of the figure-shaped [[gingerbread man]] was at the court of [[Elizabeth I|Elizabeth I of England]] in the 16th century. She had the gingerbread figures made and presented in the likeness of some of her important guests.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The Surprising Reasons Why Gingerbread Men Became a Holiday Classic |url=https://time.com/4602913/gingerbread-men-history/ |access-date=August 31, 2021 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref>

With global travel becoming widespread at that time, cookies made a natural travel companion, a modernized equivalent of the travel cakes used throughout history. One of the most popular early cookies, which traveled especially well and became known on every continent by similar names, was the [[Jumble (cookie)|jumble]], a relatively hard cookie made largely from nuts, sweetener, and water.

Cookies came to America through the Dutch in New Amsterdam in the late 1620s. The [[Dutch language|Dutch]] word "{{lang|nl|koekje}}" was Anglicized to "cookie" or cooky. The earliest reference to cookies in America is in 1703, when "The Dutch in New York provided...'in 1703...at a funeral 800 cookies...{{'"}}<ref>{{cite book|last1=van der Sijs|first1=Nicoline|title=Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops: The Influence of Dutch on the North American Languages|url=https://archive.org/details/cookiescoleslaws00sijs|url-access=limited|date=Sep 15, 2009|publisher=[[Amsterdam University Press]]|location=Amsterdam|isbn=978-9089641243|page=[https://archive.org/details/cookiescoleslaws00sijs/page/n125 125]|edition=Paperback}}</ref>

The modern form of cookies, which is based on creaming butter and sugar together, did not appear commonly until the 18th century.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ochef.com/25.htm|title=History of cookies/biscuits|work=ochef.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080302032040/http://www.ochef.com/25.htm|archive-date=2008-03-02|access-date=2008-03-01}}</ref> The [[Industrial Revolution]] in Britain and the consumers it created saw cookies (biscuits) become products for the masses, and firms such as [[Huntley & Palmers]] (formed in 1822), [[McVitie's]] (formed in 1830) and [[Carr's]] (formed in 1831) were all established.<ref name="FT">{{cite news |title=History Cook: the rise of the chocolate biscuit |url=https://www.ft.com/content/5f890020-bba6-11e8-8274-55b72926558f |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/5f890020-bba6-11e8-8274-55b72926558f |archive-date=2022-12-10 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=23 August 2021 |work=[[Financial Times]]}}</ref> The decorative [[biscuit tin]], invented by Huntley & Palmers in 1831, saw British cookies exported around the world.<ref name="FT"/> In 1891, [[Cadbury]] filed a patent for a [[Chocolate biscuit|chocolate-coated cookie]].<ref name="FT"/>

[[File:Bakarkhani cookies.jpg|thumb|The [[Bakarkhani]] cookie is part of [[Mughlai cuisine]] of the [[Indian subcontinent]].]]