Sugar and Spice Makes Cookies So Nice. Recipe

Snickerdoodle, a name for a cookie laden with sugar and cinnamon.  Depending on the recipe, this light can be crunchy with a crackled top, or soft like a thin cake.  Now the question is, why the Snickerdoodle?  “The Joy of Cooking” print since 1936) claims it is of German descent; corruption of the Schneckennudel meaning "snail noodles". Then there are the Dutch their word “snekrad” which also means The only thing I see similar to a snail is the round, sticky dough rolled in the sugar/cinnamon coating.  Personally I lean the third theory of origin, 19th century New England, and the of giving whimsical names.  lesson time!  New England is geographical region which…