The History Of The Chocolate Chip Cookie
15 December 2009
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The word ‘cookie’ is derived from the Dutch word ‘koekje’, which meant “small or little cake.
Apparently, the first historic record of ‘cookies’ was describing their use as ‘test cakes.’ What happened was a small amount of cake batter was baked once in order to test the temperature of the oven. Then rather than waste the batter, it was baked again along with the larger (apparently more preferred) cake, and it would often come out crispy.
Now, Onto the History of Chocolate Chip Cookies…
In 1930, a dietitian who owned a tourist lodge was cooking and baking for her guests. Unfortunately, she ran out of the baker’s chocolate she needed for the chocolate cookies that were on the menu. She hurriedly substituted a chocolate bar — cut up into tiny pieces — assuming they would melt. They didn’t — they just softened, instead.
And the chocolate chip cookie was born.
This history of chocolate chip cookies is still alive today, because that woman struck a deal with the manufacturer of the particular chocolate bar she’d used that day: he would print her recipe on his chocolate bar labels, and she would have a lifetime supply of them…
Now sit back and enjoy what I like to call,
“Cookie Porn.”
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Give credit where credit is due. The tourist lodge was called “The Tollhouse” of Whitman, Mass [my hometown]. And therein giving the name Tollhouse cookies on the packages we see in the supermarket for chocolate chip cookies.
Ruth Wakefield invented the Toll House brand of chocolate chip cookies. Ruth Graves Wakefield graduated from the Framingham State Normal School Department of Household Arts in 1924. She worked as a dietitian and lectured on food, until, together with her husband she bought a tourist lodge named the Toll House Inn.
Ruth Wakefield prepared the recipes for the meals served to the guests at the Inn and gained local notoriety for her deserts. One of her favorite recipes was for Butter Drop Do cookies. The recipe called for the use of baker’s chocolate and one day Ruth found herself without the needed ingredient. She substituted a semi-sweet chocolate bar cut up into bits. However, unlike the baker’s chocolate the chopped up chocolate bar did not melt completely, the small pieces only softened.
As it so happened the chocolate bar had been a gift from Andrew Nestle of the Nestle Chocolate Company. As the Toll House chocolate chip cookie recipe became popular, sales of Nestle’s semi-sweet chocolate bar increased. Andrew Nestle and Ruth Wakefield struck a deal. Nestle would print the Toll House Cookie recipe on its packaging and Ruth Wakefield would have a lifetime supply of Nestle chocolate.
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