Who first made Chocolate Chip Cookies?
Jun 23rd 2009Cherie CarbBaking
A very popular cookie is the Chocolate Chip Cookie. A favorite treat of our family, we like it best right out of the oven.
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Chocolate chip cookies are called a drop cookie. Their dough traditionally has brown sugar, white sugar, butter and semi-sweet chocolate chips.
There are variations of the cookies with oatmeal or nuts or M&M’s like my kids love. Another favorite is Macadamia nut in with white chocolate.
A fun dessert, a cookie-wich made by Mrs. Field is two cookies with a middle layer of frosting. Loads of sugar and loads of calories! Our local Mrs. Fields stand closed luckily for me!
A lady by the name of Ruth Graves Wakefield is the one whom made this great treat. We owe her thanks. The famous name she gave them was “Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies”.
Where did the “Toll House” part come from? It was the name of the inn owned by Ruth and her husband, Kenneth Wakefield in Massachusetts.
“Toll House Inn” was an inn, restaurant and a toll stop. Being built on a toll road, folks stopped there to pay their tolls like a modern day toll both for us.
In the 1940’s Ruth Graves Wakefield wrote a cookbook based on the years cooking at the inn. It was a best seller called “Ruth Wakefield’s Recipes: Tried and True”.
The Toll House Inn was sold in the 1960’s. It went through some changes, was sold in the 1970’s, restored to it’s original form. And it burned down in the 1980’s.
Ruth Graves Wakefield lived til 1977. Her grave is in Massachusetts.
Massachusetts had a proposal in 1977 for the chocolate chip cookie to be the official cookie of the state.
Billions of variations are made and eaten of this famous cookie all over the world. We should pay thanks to Mrs. Wakefield for the cookie we all love.