Cookies!

Did you know that “Toll House” is, legally, a generic word for cookie? Or that cookies as we know them today were first baked in the 600s, around the time that sugar was first cultivated? My latest facts list is all about this sweet treat.

ca. 1880-90’s, [occupational cabinet card of two bakers], C.L Judd

via Cowan’s Auctions

ca. 1850’s, [daguerreotype portrait of a bank note salesman with open book, bank notes]

via the Daguerrian Society, Matthew R. Isenburg Collection