Last spring, for the first time ever, we had an actual Girl Scout deliver cookies to our door. Before that, my only access had been through coworkers whose daughters were in the Scouts, which meant picking up boxes in a fluorescent-lit newsroom — efficient, but not exactly as memorable as seeing my son’s friend walk up our steps with a bag stuffed full of Thin Mints and Samoas. We made sure to place our order early this year and, as I eagerly awaited the cookies, I stumbled across Tasting History with Max Miller’s Instagram video about the original Girl Scout Cookie recipe. It’d still be a little while before our boxes arrived, so I was intrigued enough to follow Miller’s lead and recreate the cookie that started it all. It turns out, before the neatly packaged boxes we know and love today became the standard, Girl Scout troops were baking cookies from scratch as early as the 1910s. One recipe, dubbed simply “Girl Scout Cookies,” was shared in a troop publication, the American Girl .…