Citations:cookie-cutter

English citations of cookie-cutter

noun

• 1885, Juliet Corson, Juliet Corson's New Family Cook Book, page 198:

  Let the paste stand overnight; the next morning roll it out, cut it with a cookie-cutter, and bake the cookies on a buttered and floured baking pan.

• 1891, Sarah J. Cutter, ed., Palatable Dishes: A Practical Guide to Good Living, page 545:

  Have made a rich, flaky pie-crust, roll it out, and with a cookie-cutter as large as the top of a baking-powder box cut out the crust.

• 1914, Mrs. J. G. Keller, “Hermits” in Cook Book of the Women's Educational Club, page 218:

  Pour on board and knead a little, roll out thin, using cookie-cutter, and bake in quick oven.

• 1915, advertisement in The Literary Digest, volume 51, page 1206:

  10c Cookie-Cutter FREE! Send us your name and address and the name of your grocer and 5c (stamp or coin) partially to pay postage and packing and we will send you a “One-Cake” package of Dromedary Cocoanut, a Dromedary Cookie-Cutter and a Cocoanut Recipe Book.

• 1951, Marion Doyle, “Cookie Cut-Ups” in Farm Journal, volume 75, page 125:

  If you are a girl, trace cookie-cutters on tea towels and embroider around them for a Christmas present for Mother.

• 1964, Saul Edward Rantz, Stream hydrology related to the optimum discharge for King Salmon spawning in the northern California coast ranges, page AA5:

  The bed sampling equipment consisted of a tooth-edged cylindrical “cookie-cutter”, a set of graduated sieves, and a spring weighing scale. The “cookie-cutter” was 14 inches in diameter, 2 feet long, and made of light steel plate.

• 2001, Steven G. Johnson, John D. Joannopoulos, Photonic Crystals: The Road from Theory to Practice (→ISBN), page 19:

  You can roll out the dough as flat as you need, and even use a cookie-cutter to make the pattern.

• 2006, Brent K. Sutton, Grandpa's Financial Cookie-Cutter: Common Sense Templates for the Family Bookkeeper (→ISBN), page 83:

  Yes, these templates give a cookie-cutter approach for a family's financial records, but remember that a cookie-cutter only gives you the shape.

• 2012, Casey Barber, Classic Snacks Made from Scratch: 70 Homemade Versions of Your Favorite Brand-Name Treats (→ISBN), page 29:

  YIELD: approximately 3 dozen cookies (depending on cookie-cutter shape)

• 2013, Rom Harre, Great Scientific Experiments: Twenty Experiments that Changed our View of the World (Courier Corporation, →ISBN):

  In the passive condition the hand was held palm upwards and the cookie-cutters were pressed on to the sensitive skin of the palm. In the active condition it was the finger tips which were mainly in contact with the cookie-cutter.

attributive

• 1996, Marilyn Wood, Frommer's Wonderful Weekends from New York City, →ISBN, page 16:

  The coziest room is undoubtedly the wood-paneled country-style kitchen, decorated with wicker baskets and a cookie-cutter collection.

• 2002, Rob E. Holt -, What the Cross Means to Me, →ISBN, page 26:

  Oh, our cookie-cutter collection included the shapes of a baby chick, a bunny rabbit, and even an Easter egg.

adjective

• First used with "very" in the nineties.
• First used with "more" in 1989 (the 1971 and 1987 quotations don't count/belong there)
• First used with "rather" in 1986
• First used with "most" in the nineties.