Arizona woman keeps 85-year-old cookie as family heirloom
Published in Weird News
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (UPI) -- An Arizona woman is holding on to an unusual family heirloom -- an 85-year-old cookie given as a Valentine to her mother.
Scottsdale resident Penny Rickhoff said her family has been holding on to the heart-shaped cookie since the 1930s, when it was given to her mother by her first love.
"People back then, shoot, didn't have a lot of money," Rickhoff told KPHO/KTVK. So you bake a cookie, what else can you do?
She said the cookie, which bears the name of her mother's boyfriend, Bus, stopped being appetizing long ago.
"It's hard as a rock," Rickhoff said.
"She wanted to keep it as a memento," Rickhoff said of her mother.
She said she plans to hold on to the cookie for as long as it holds together.
"It's a lucky cookie, as I say," Rickhoff said.
The cookie's vintage is impressive, but its far from the oldest surviving dessert food -- a Minnesota man held a party in 2011 to celebrate the 100th "birthday" of a Christmas cake an antique-dealing friend had given him after receiving it from the attorney handing an estate sale. The cake was baked by Rose Garden Florist in Detroit in December of 1911.
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