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This Popular Holiday Cookie Was A Rare Treat For Abraham Lincoln By Joe Hoeffner Aug. 28, 2025 3:30 pm EST

He's the man on the five dollar bill. The man who led our country through the Civil War and freed the slaves. The man who, as a fighter in his youth, demonstrated one of the first recorded instances of the chokeslam. (Yes, really.) Abraham Lincoln looms large in our nation's history, to the point where he sometimes seems more like a myth than a man. But he was just a man, after all: a man with a complicated relationship with his wife, a startlingly high-pitched voice, and an abiding love of gingerbread cookies. (Although he also enjoyed a cornbread-like snack called "corn dodgers." )

In one of his famed debates against the slavery-defending Stephen Douglas, Linc

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