An woman from Arizona, USA 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.
