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Article: Shapely, Sassy Cookie-Cutters
- Article from:
- Antiques & Collecting Magazine
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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JUST THE MENTION of cookie-cutters evokes memories and the aromas of baking-happy family members bent over sheets of fragrant ginger-bread dough, busily cutting out roly-poly men, saucy birds, stars, or whatever else tickles their fancy. This age-old ritual is practiced to this day in preparation for celebratory occasions.
Thousands of years ago, bakers satisfied their artistic urges and ventured beyond baking the necessary and filling, albeit boring, staff of life-bread. They began to twist and turn and cut raw dough into interesting shapes with their hands and then baked dainty little cakes flavored with honey, syrup, and exotic spices. This practice spread gradually from Egypt to the ...