This one's a little trick I just learned while making a batch of snickerdoodles. If you are making shaped cookies, and you need to roll the dough into balls, but the dough is very wet and sticky? Spray just a little cooking oil on your hands first. It makes rolling the dough significantly easier, and doesn't adversely affect the cookies. Until you run out of Pam, of course. D'oh. Dough. Whatever.
According to the Joy of Cooking, the name "snickerdoodle" is a corruption of German Schneckennudeln, the name for a traditional pastry (lit. "snail noodles"). Although modern snickerdoodles aren't spiral or otherwise escargotesque, they are cinnamon flavored, like the traditional pastries.
Alternatively, the name might just be made up. These things happen sometimes.
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