When was the cookie invented and by whom?

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No one knows for sure, but a long time ago. The thin sweet small(ish) cakes called cookies in the US were probably first used as test cakes by Old World bakers. Historians say a small amount of cake batter was used to test oven temperature. Cookies are also called biscuits in England and Australia, galletas in Spain, keks or kels in Germany, and amaretti or biscotti (among others) in Italy.

The earliest cookies were probably baked about 600 A. D. in Persia (now Iran). The Muslim invasions of Spain, the Crusades and the spice trade spread cookies to Europe.

By the end of the 14th century, one could buy little filled wafers on the streets of Paris. Renaissance cookbooks were rich in cookie recipes.

Hardtack, the cookie's unsweetened cousin, was a staple of all seafarers including those sailing to the new World.

In the early 1937, Ruth Graves Wakefield of Whitman,MA created the chocolate chip cookie by accident when she substituted chunks of semi-sweet chocolate for baker's chocolate in her all-chocolate cookies. The chunks of chocolate failed to melt, but the result was quite delicious. And the rest is history.

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