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Who doesn’t like cookies of one sort or another? This week, Tidbits is taking a look at this treat’s origin, along with how some of our favorites got their start. • The word “cookie” has its origins in the Dutch language

from their word keokje, meaning “little cake.” It’s thought that cookies originated as a method of testing cakes. Bakers used a small amount of cake batter to test the oven temperature. Persia was probably the fi rst country to make cookies, as it was one of the fi rst to cultivate sugar.

• Home-baked cookies come in several styles. Pressed cookies are formed by pressing dough through a press to form fancy shapes. Drop cookies are made by merely dropping spoonfuls of dough onto a baking sheet while the dough for bar cookies is spread in a shallow pan and cut into bars after baking. Icebox cookies are created by shaping dough into a log, which is refrigerated, then sliced and baked. Cookies cutters are used to make rolled cookies into decorative shapes. American tinsmiths began fashioning cookie cutters by hand in the 1700s.

• The fi rst American cookbook, American Cookery, published in 1796 includes two recipes simply called “Cookies” and “Christmas Cookey.”

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from Bavaria and Austria, and are small anise-fl avored cookies with an image stamped on top, imprinted from a carved rolling pin or mold. Centuries ago, these were used to tell the Christmas story to the illiterate by stamping Bible scenes from the Nativity into the dough. A 14th-century hand-carved wooden springerle mold featuring images of the Easter lamb, the world’s oldest known mold, was discovered in Switzerland.

• No matter what you call it, it’s still a cookie. In England, they’re biscuits, in Spain, galletas, while Germans say keks. The Italians use several different names, most commonly amaretti and biscotti. The word biscotti translates “twice cooked,” as the dough is formed into a log and baked, then sliced and baked again.

• The tradition of Girl Scout cookies dates back to 1917, just fi ve years after Juliette Low founded the organization. A scout troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma, baked cookies and held a sale in their high school cafeteria as part of a service project. Over the next two decades, Girl Scouts across America held sales of cookies baked by their own troops, packaging them in wax paper, and selling door-to-door for 35 cents a dozen. In 1934, Philadelphia Girl Scouts became the fi rst to sell commercially-baked cookies, and within two years, the national organization licensed the idea. During World War II, when there was a shortage of sugar, fl our, and butter, the Girl Scouts sold calendars as their service project. By 1948, 29 commercial bakers were licensed to bake the three varieties – peanut butter sandwich, shortbread, and chocolate mints. Today, cookie sales during the short eight-week time period when the Scouts hold their sale are close to $790 million.

• One common belief for the origin of fortune cookies dates back to the 12th century, when Chinese soldiers defended their territory from Mongolian invaders. Legend has it that the Mongolians didn’t particularly care for Chinese lotus nut paste cakes, so Chinese soldiers hid messages containing details of their uprising written on rice paper inside the cakes to notify the troops. A more recent explanation cites a Cantonese immigrant working as a baker in Los Angeles putting slips of paper inside his cookies with words of encouragement and good “fortune” and handing them out to the poor and homeless street people. In 1960, a new machine was invented that folded fortune cookies in half much faster.

• After his service with the Air Force, Wally Amos went to work as a talent agent with the William Morris Agency. His trick to persuade celebrities to meet with him and work out a deal was to send home-baked chocolate chip cookies home with them. It became apparent that he was better at cookies than as an agent, and in 1975, Wally “Famous” Amos opened his fi rst store in Los Angeles, selling $300,000 his fi rst year, jumping to over $1 million the following year.

• The world’s favorite cookie is the Oreo, now sold in more than 100 countries around the globe. The very fi rst Oreo rolled out of a Manhattan bakery in March, 1912, and was sold shortly thereafter in Hoboken, New Jersey. The fi rst Oreos were packaged in bulk tins and sold by weight, about 30 cents a lb. back then. Today, they’re baked at 21 different bakeries and over 20.5 million of these favorites are eaten worldwide every single

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• Another favorite is the Toll House cookie, which is the original name of chocolate chip cookies. In 1937, Ruth Wakefi eld was the proprietor of the Toll House Restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts. The restaurant was housed in a former 1709 toll house, a station where stage coach passengers ate while the horses were exchanged, and a toll was paid for using the highway. Ruth regularly served a popular cookie, the “Butter Drop Do,” which called for baker’s chocolate. Having run out of the chocolate one day, she chopped up a bar of Nestles semisweet chocolate and stirred the pieces into the dough, expecting them to melt and spread throughout the cookie. The chunks did not melt, and Ruth had a new creation, which she dubbed Toll House Crunch Cookies, which became an immediate hit. The recipe was published in a Boston newspaper soon after.

• It’s believed that chocolate brownies also came about by an ingredient mishap, that is, a cook neglecting to add baking powder to chocolate cake batter. Without the leavening action of the baking powder to increase the volume of the cake, a denser cookie-like cake was produced. Others say it was intentionally created by a chef at Chicago’s Palmer House Hotel during the 1893 Columbian Exhibition. The 1897 Sears and Roebuck catalog published what is thought to be the fi rst known recipe for brownies, and it became so popular, the company offered a brownie mix in their catalog.

• Philadelphia inventor James Henry Mitchell is credited with inventing a double dough sheeting machine and funnel device that made the Fig Newton possible. He patented his invention in 1892, and production began on the little jam-fi lled confections which were named after the community of Newton, Massachusetts, which was near the factory where the fi rst Newtons were created.

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MOMENTS IN TIMEThe History Channel

• On Dec. 13, 1642, Dutch navigator Abel Tas-man becomes the fi rst European explorer to

sight the South Pacifi c island group now known as New Zealand. In his sole attempt to land,

several of Tasman’s crew were killed by war-riors from a South Island tribe, who interpreted the Europeans’ exchange of trumpet signals as a

prelude to battle.

• On Dec. 9, 1775, the Virginia and North Caro-lina militias defeat 800 slaves and 200 redcoats serving John Murray, earl of Dunmore and gov-ernor of Virginia, at Great Bridge outside Nor-folk, ending British royal control of Virginia.

• On Dec. 11, 1872, already appearing as a well-known fi gure of the Wild West in popular dime novels, Buffalo Bill Cody makes his fi rst

stage appearance in a Chicago-based production of “The Scouts of the Prairie.”

• On Dec. 12, 1901, Italian physicist and radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi succeeds in sending

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sion to 200 miles or less.

• On Dec. 14, 1946, American tennis cham-pion Stan Smith is born in Pasadena, Calif. A three-time All-American at the University of

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• On Dec. 10, 1967, a plane carrying soul-music legend Otis Redding crashes into the frigid

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• On Dec. 15, 1988, legendary singer James Brown, also known as the “Godfather of Soul” and the “Hardest Working Man in Show Busi-ness,” becomes inmate number 155413 at the

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Thanksgiving is almost here. If you have the fi nancial resources to provide a comfortable life for your family, you have reason to be thankful. And if you can afford to share some of your “bounty” with charitable organizations, you may want to be as generous as possible — because your gifts may allow you to both give and receive.

By donating cash or other fi nancial assets, such as stocks, to a qualifi ed charity (either a religious group or a group that has received 501(c)(3) status from the IRS), you help benefi t an organization whose work you believe in — and, at the same time, you can receive valuable tax benefi ts.

To illustrate: If you give $100 to a qualifi ed charity, and you’re in the 25% tax bracket, you can deduct $100, with a tax benefi t of $25, when you fi le your 2013 taxes. Therefore, the real “cost” of your donation is just $75 ($100 minus the $25 tax savings). Furthermore, if you donate certain types of non-cash assets, you may be able to receive additional tax benefi ts. Suppose you give $1,000 worth of stock to a charitable group. If you’re in the 25% bracket, you’ll be able to deduct $250 when you fi le your taxes. And by donating the stock, you can avoid paying the capital gains taxes that would be due if you had eventually sold the stock yourself.

To claim a charitable deduction, you have to be able to itemize deductions on your taxes. Charitable gifting can get more complex if you choose to integrate your charitable giving with your estate plans to help you reduce your taxable estate. The estate tax is consist-ently debated in Congress, and the exemption level has fl uctuated in recent years, so it’s not easy to predict if you could eventually subject your heirs to these taxes. Nonetheless, you can still work with your tax and legal advisors now to take steps to reduce any possible estate tax burden in the years ahead.

One such step might involve establishing a charitable remainder trust. Under this arrangement, you’d place some assets, such as appreciated stocks or real estate, in a trust, which could then use these assets to pay you a lifetime income stream. When you establish the trust, you may be able to receive a tax deduction based on the charitable group’s “remainder interest” — the amount the charity is likely to ultimately receive. (This fi gure is determined by an IRS formula.) Upon your death, the trust would relinquish the remaining assets to the chari-table organization you’ve named. Keep in mind, though, that this type of trust can be complex. To establish one, you’ll need to work with your tax and legal advisors.

Of course, you can also choose to provide your loved ones with monetary gifts while you’re still alive. You can give up to $14,000 per year, per individual, to as many people as you choose without incurring the gift tax. For example, if you have three children, you could give them a cumulative $42,000 in a single year — and so could your spouse.

Thanksgiving is a fi ne time to show your generosity. And, as we’ve seen, being generous can be rewarding — for your recipients and yourself.

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