With a round cutter (if you have not a cookey cutter, a Royal baking powder box, quarter-pound size, is just the thing) stamp out ten or a dozen circular pieces, […] 1886, Good Housekeeping Magazine, volume 4, page 303:
Cookies. […] make roles half an inch thick and cut to the ſhape you pleaſe; […] Another Chriſtmas Cookey. […] tho’ hard and dry at firſt, if put into an earthern pot, and dry cellar, or damp room, they will be finer, ſofter and better when ſix months old. 1796, Amelia Simmons, “Cake”, in American Cookery, […], Hartford, Conn.: […] Hudson & Goodwin, for the author, →OCLC, page 35: