History of the Chocolate Chip Cookie

The other day I was watching TV and I saw that chocolate chip cookies were actually invented by accident!

A woman named Ruth Wakefield is who invented the chocolate chip cookie and the brand Toll House. She graduated from the Framingham State Normal School Department of Household Arts in 1924 and worked as a dietitian and lectured on food. With her husband she bought a tourist lodge named the Toll House Inn. One day, while trying to make Butter Drop Do cookies, she ran out of Baker's Chocolate and decided to use a semi-sweet chocolate bar that she had cut up into pieces. What ended up happening was, unlike the baker's chocolate the chopped up, the chocolate bar did not melt completely and the small pieces only softened. Thus, the chocolate chip cookie was invented! Also, the chocolate bar that was used as substitute for baker's chocolate, was a gift from Andrew Nestle of the Nestle Chocolate Company. Ruth's Toll House chocolate chip cookie recipe became very popular. In conjunction, Nestle's semi-sweet chocolate bar sales increase. Because of this, Andrew Nestle and Ruth made a deal: that Nestle would put Ruth's Toll House Cookie recipe on Nestle's chocolate packaging and Ruth would get a lifetime supply of Nestle chocolate! :) Wouldn't we all like that? 


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