It's cookie season! And because delicious cookies never go out of style Gourmet magazine has picked the very best cookie from each of its 68 years.
Enjoy some of these legendary recipes.
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1947: Old-Fashioned Christmas Butter Cookies
A Gourmet article on Christmas cookies called these the "pride of the thrifty housewife," because they keep for weeks in a tin.
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1949: Brandy Snaps
You'll swoon over these extra-thin, melt-in-the-mouth cookies. They make perfect accompaniments to ice cream.
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1951: Sugar Shuttles
These delightful cookies are a real taste of the past: crisp and shaggy on the outside with a cakelike crumb. It's time they make a comeback.
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1959: Gingerbread Men
Of all of the gingerbread men recipes Gourmet ran over the years, this recipe blows them all away with its right-on-the-money classic flavor.
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1965: Ginger Sugar Snaps
It wouldn't be Christmas without these classic cookies. The spices -- equal parts ginger, cinnamon, and cloves -- are deepened with molasses.
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1973: Crescent Cheese Cookies
These jammy cookies are really rich little pastries, thanks to the inclusion of pot cheese (a slightly drier version of cottage cheese) in the dough.
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1979: Linzer Bars
Linzer cookies come in all shapes and sizes, but Gourmet picked these bars because they have all the appeal of the cookies with the ease of a tart.
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1982: Chocolate Meringue Biscuits
Cloud-light almond meringues crunch in the mouth, then dissolve on the tongue -- leaving the cool layer of chocolate to melt away slowly.
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1987: Mocha Toffee Bars
The country went wild for the combination of buttery toffee and chocolate in the 1980s. These chewy bars epitomize that over-the-top quality.
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