Mak Rusmah Cookies: Generations-old recipes popular as ever

Sweet success: Mak Rusmah Cookies founder, Rusmah Makom, and her son, Nasaruddin Supardi, at their shop in Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur.

Rusmah Makom’s generations-old recipes remain ever popular.

After 31 years in the business, Rusmah Makom, 74, is still passionate about creating new varieties of cookies for Raya. “It’s a passion of mine to make every batch of cookies the same way I bake them for my close family members and friends. I still use the traditional recipes passed down for generations and probably that is why so many people like them. Many of my customers have remarked that the cookies tasted like how the older generations used to make them,” she says.