Trivia # 23 : Cookies

• The word cookie is derived from the Dutch word koeptje ( koekje ), meaning small cake. 
• The official state cookie of Massachusetts is the chocolate chip cookie, invented in 1930 at the Toll House Restaurant. (Pennsylvania is also considering the chocolate chip cookie as their official cookie.)
• EEL COOKIES: Unagi Pie, a specialty of Hamamatsu, Japan, are cookies made with fresh butter with crushed eel bones, eel extract, or garlic mixed in.
• The origin of Cookies: Two issues to deal with here. The word and the food.  The food, originated in Rome sometime around the 3rd century B.C., and it was called 'bis coctum' meaning twice baked.The Roman 'bis coctum' was not sweet, it had no sugar added.   'Bis coctum' is the origin of the word 'biscuit,' which is a flakey quick bread in the U.S.,  but in England a biscuit is what in the U.S. would be called a cookie or cracker.