jquery save json data object in cookie

How do I save JSON data in a cookie? My JSON data looks like this $("#ArticlesHolder").data('15', {name:'testname', nr:'4',price:'400'}); $("#ArticlesHolder").data('25', {name:'name2', nr:'1', price:'100'}); $("#ArticlesHolder").data('37', {name:'name3', nr:'14', price:'60'}); And I want to do something like var dataStore = $.cookie("basket-data", $("#ArticlesHolder").data()); and to retrieve the