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Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie Story
Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie Story
The chocolate chip cookie was invented by American chefs Ruth Graves Wakefield and Sue
Brides in 1938. She invented the recipe during the period when she owned the Toll House Inn
(place to stay in while on a trip, like a bed &
breakfast), in Whitman, Massachusetts. In this
era, the Toll House Inn was a popular restaurant
that featured home cooking. It is often incorrectly
reported that she accidentally developed the
cookie, and that she expected the chocolate
chunks would melt, making chocolate cookies. In
fact, she stated that she deliberately invented the
cookie. She said, "We had been serving a thin
(slim) butterscotch (type of caramel made of
brown sugar and butter) nut cookie with ice
cream. Everybody seemed (appeared) to love it, but I was trying to give them something
different. So I came up with the Toll House cookie."She added chopped up (cut, sliced up) bits
(pieces) from a Nestlé semi-sweet chocolate bar into a cookie.The
original recipe in Toll House Tried and True Recipes is called "Toll
House Chocolate Crunch Cookies". Wakefield gave Nestle the recipe
for her cookies and was paid with a lifetime supply (stock, reserve,
store for the rest of her life) of chocolate from the company.
Later history
Wakefield's cookbook, Toll House Tried and True Recipes, was first
published in 1936 by M. Barrows & Company, New York. The 1938
edition of the cookbook was the first to include the recipe "Toll House
Chocolate Crunch Cookie" which rapidly (quickly, fast) became a
favorite cookie in American homes.
During WWII, soldiers from Massachusetts who were stationed (serving) overseas (abroad,
away, in foreign land) shared the cookies they received in care packages from back home with
soldiers from other parts of the United States. Soon, hundreds of soldiers were writing home
asking their families to send them some Toll House cookies,
and Wakefield was soon inundated (overwhelmed, swamped,
flooded) with letters from around the world requesting her
recipe. Thus (consequently, so, in consequence) began the
nationwide craze for the chocolate chip cookie.The demand for
the cookies helped spread their popularity beyond the east
coast. The recipe for chocolate chip cookies was brought to
the UK in 1956, with Maryland Cookies one of the UK's best
selling chocolate chip cookies.
Source: Wikipedia