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Chocolate Chip Cookie

Chocolate chip cookie- The true story

The very first chocolate chip cookie was born at a little place called the Tollhouse Inn in Whitman, Mass. The year was 1930 and the owner of the Inn, one Ruth Wakefield, was busy preparing her usual cookies that her customers enjoyed. As she was about to add a vital ingredient, a type of chocolate that easily melted into the cookies to give them some chocolate flavor, she realized that none of it could be found in the kitchen pantry. She would have to improvise-so she went into the little store that she also kept at the Inn and decided to use a bar of Nestle's semi-sweet chocolate.

And the rest is history...

She broke the bar up into smaller pieces and added then to the cookie dough thinking that would melt into the mixture. But, melt they did not and instead kept their shape. Truth be told, Ruth was not really happy about the final product which would soon come to be known as the chocolate chip cookie. She served them to her guests anyway and the phenomenon just snowballed. The chocolate chip cookie was so well- liked that the recipe began getting passed around the country. The chocolate chip cookie increased the sales of Nestle's semi-sweet chocolate bars to the point that Nestle began to produce and sell what we now know as chocolate morsels so that housewives across the country would no longer have to break up chocolate bars.

Shortly thereafter, Nestle approached Ruth with an offer that she couldn't refuse. She would allow Nestle to put her chocolate chip cookie recipe on their bags of chocolate chips and she would receive a lifetime supply of their chocolate- not a bad deal at all...for Nestle.