by Barbara Swell. Softbound, 152 pages, 6" x 9". In 1917, Anna "Cookie" Covington set out to record all her favorite cookie recipes as a gift to her daughter because no published cookie recipe books existed at that time. This book includes Anna's 221 recipes recorded from 1917 to 1920 along with adaptations for the modern kitchen, vintage graphics and photos, WW I food shortage recipes, plus curiosities of cookie baking history. One of the earliest collections of American cookie recipes, dating from the mid 1800's up through World War I.