Chocolate Chip Cookies
by Kay Novy
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Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Kay Novy
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Made by me in my kitchen in Kenosha, Wisconsin in the USA.
The chocolate-chip cookie celebrated its seventy-fifth birthday this year. The creator of the chocolate-chip cookie has always been known to us. Ruth Wakefield, who ran the popular Toll House restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts, with her husband, Kenneth, from 1930 to 1967, brought the Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie into being in the late nineteen-thirties. The recipe, which has been tweaked over the ensuing decades, made its first appearance in print in the 1938 edition of Wakefield’s “Tried and True” cookbook. Created as an accompaniment to ice cream, the chocolate-chip cookie quickly became so celebrated that Marjorie Husted (a.k.a. Betty Crocker) featured it on her radio program. On March 20, 1939, Wakefield gave Nestlé the right to use her cookie recipe and the Toll House name. In a bargain that rivals Peter Minuit’s purchase of Manhattan, the price was a dollar—a dollar that Wakefield later said she never received (though she was reportedly given free chocolate for life and was also paid by Nestlé for work as a consultant).
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November 23rd, 2017
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Kay Novy
John, "Images That Excite You" group, thanks so much for the homepage feature! Appreciated!
Wes Iversen
Yum! My favorite! I'll be right over! ;-) Great shot and interesting history too, Kay! L/F
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