Comments on: The History Of The Chocolate Chip Cookie http://www.baconbabble.com/index.php/2009/12/15/the-history-of-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/ Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:45:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: theoneinpink » Bits ‘n Pieces: January 9, 2010 http://www.baconbabble.com/index.php/2009/12/15/the-history-of-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/comment-page-1/#comment-4419 theoneinpink » Bits ‘n Pieces: January 9, 2010 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:00:12 +0000 http://www.baconbabble.com/?p=2927#comment-4419 [...] The History of the Chocolate Chip Cookie: Mmmm… cookies. If you’re a baker, cook or trivia buff – read up! It’s pretty cool. [...] [...] The History of the Chocolate Chip Cookie: Mmmm… cookies. If you’re a baker, cook or trivia buff – read up! It’s pretty cool. [...]

]]> By: Mike O'Leary http://www.baconbabble.com/index.php/2009/12/15/the-history-of-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/comment-page-1/#comment-4011 Mike O'Leary Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:17:23 +0000 http://www.baconbabble.com/?p=2927#comment-4011 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. 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.

]]> By: Sean Leary http://www.baconbabble.com/index.php/2009/12/15/the-history-of-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/comment-page-1/#comment-3939 Sean Leary Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:49:08 +0000 http://www.baconbabble.com/?p=2927#comment-3939 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. 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.

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