Lorna Doone is a brand of golden, square-shaped

shortbread Shortbread or shortie is a traditional Scottish biscuit usually made from one part sugar, white sugar, two parts butter and three to four parts plain flour, plain wheat flour. Shortbread does not contain leavening, such as baking powder or bakin ...

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produced by

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and owned by

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. Introduced in March 1912, it was possibly named after the main character in R. D. Blackmore's 1869 novel, Englishwoman

Lorna Doone ''Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor'' is a novel by R. D. Blackmore, first published in three volumes in London in 1869. It is a romance based on a group of historical characters and set in the late 17th century in Devon and Somerset, particu ...

, but no record exists as to the exact motivation behind the name. The original cookie recipe came from the Malloys, Emily and John, who ran a bakery in

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. Emily had created the recipe, but when they closed down the bakery, John sold the recipe to F. A. Kennedy Steam Bakery which had also first produced the

Fig Newton Newtons are a Nabisco-trademarked version of a cookie filled with sweet fruit paste. Fig Newtons are the most popular variety. They are produced by an extrusion process. Their distinctive shape is a characteristic that has been adopted by compe ...

in 1891. A box of Lorna Doone can be seen, in cartoon form, in '' Mickey's Surprise Party'' (1939), a theatrical advertisement/cartoon short produced by Walt Disney Productions for Nabisco.

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