Article: Cookie business has produced a lot of dough

Mrs. Fields Cookies. Sixteen locations in Chicago and suburbs. Cookies Chicago, Franklin Concourse, Sears Tower, 233 S. Wacker, 876-2676; Illinois Center, 225 N. Michigan, 565-1267. Raimondi's Pastry Shoppe, 4848 Butterfield Rd., Hillside. 449-7600.

When Mrs. Ruth Wakefield, who owned the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Mass., created the Toll House cookie in the early '30s, she really started something. Today, the business of selling cookies is big business, to the sweet tune of several billion dollars a year.

The word "cookie" is from the Dutch koekje, meaning "little cake." Cookies were a favorite treat with the early Dutch settlers along the Eastern Seaboard. Cookbooks from the 18th ...

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