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"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.