18th December Bake Cookies Day

It's time to bake again, and this time it is cookies. What are cookies? Well the dictionary says that a cookie is 'a small, flat, sweet food made from flour and sugar'. As a child I would have called that a biscuit. As I lived in a family of six, my mother made a batch of biscuits and a slice most days. We never had bought biscuits.

I thought biscuits were English and Australian and cookies were American, but more and more the word 'cookie' is used in Australia too. I even see labels that say 'Anzac Cookies', something that to me was always 'Anzac Biscuits'.

Whatever they are called, it is the time of year for making cookies of all sorts, be they shortbread, gingerbread, sweet or savoury. You will have no trouble finding recipes. Then if you want to read before, during or after the cooking look for some well known books where cookies or biscuits are shared.

And just to prove me wrong about the word 'cookie', here is a very new Australian picture book that uses the word 'cookies'.

So to offset this, I'm sharing the latest in the Frank and Bert series.