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The Archive Wing

Revive the Past.

History's greatest recipes were never meant to disappear. They were passed hand to hand, generation to generation — until they weren't. The Archive Wing reaches backward through time and makes those recipes tasteable again.

Here, the exhibit is the recipe.

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Collection 01
Historic Cookies
Recipes That Shaped a Nation

The first American cookbook was published in 1796. Its recipes were not invented — they were preserved. This collection recovers those early American recipes and the people behind them, translating historical records into edible artifacts.

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Historic Cookies Collection
Signature Exhibits
Exhibit 01  ·  Flagship
The 1796
Amelia Simmons' Hartford "Cookey" — the first cookie recipe printed in an American cookbook, faithfully reconstructed from the original 1796 edition of American Cookery.
Medium
White Sugar · Caraway Seed · Boiled Sugar Technique
Source
American Cookery, 1796
Author
Amelia Simmons
Method
Boiled sugar · Hard style
Distinction
First American Recipe
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The 1796 — Original Cookey
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The Legacy Collection
Cookies built around the documented recipes and agricultural legacies of figures who shaped American food culture — but whose contributions were never formally recorded.
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Era Reconstructions
Each exhibit reconstructs the signature baked good of a specific cultural moment — a recipe that defined a community, a season, or a turning point in American culinary history.
Every recipe that is recreated is an act of revival.
The Archive Wing is where that revival is made edible.