cookey

English

Noun

cookey (plural cookeys or cookies)

  1. Dated form of cookie.
    • 1796, Amelia Simmons, “Cake”, in American Cookery, […], Hartford, Conn.: […] Hudson & Goodwin, for the author, →OCLC, page 35:
      Cookies. […] make roles half an inch thick and cut to the ſhape you pleaſe; […] Another Chriſtmas Cookey. […] tho’ hard and dry at firſt, if put into an earthern pot, and dry cellar, or damp room, they will be finer, ſofter and better when ſix months old.
    • 1886, Good Housekeeping Magazine, volume 4, page 303:
      With a round cutter (if you have not a cookey cutter, a Royal baking powder box, quarter-pound size, is just the thing) stamp out ten or a dozen circular pieces, […]

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