A Commonplace Book

Category: cookies...

  • Toll House cookies, 7-layer cookies, Christmas cookies, Mexican Wedding cookies, Girl Scout cookies, oatmeal raisin cookies - and milk
  • cookie is derived from Dutch koekje, a diminutive of koek "cake"
  • a simple dough of flour, butter, sugar, and egg with flavoring and texturizing ingredients
  • Warning: Fortune Cookies don't care what happens to you. (M. Cooley)
  • Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice. (M. Cooley)
  • cookies in the oven
  • the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies
  • There are currently 20 distinctive shapes of Barnum Animal Crackers: Bear, Bison, Camel, Cougar, Elephant, Giraffe, Gorilla, Hippopotamus, Hyena, Jaguar, Kangaroo, Lion, Monkey, Rhinoceros, Seal, Sheep, Tiger, Wolf, and Zebra, and the Koala.

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