The Chocolate Chip Cookie dates back to 1930 when Ken and Ruth Wakefield opened a restaurant in a house in Whitman, Massachusetts. The house was located on a road that was used by many people traveling from Boston to New Bedford. The house was known as "The Tollhouse Inn" and was a place where many a stagecoach stopped to pay their toll and passengers ate excellent food and were provided excellent service.
As with many recipes the Chocolate Chip Cookie was conceived by accident when Ruth ran out of nuts for her famous butter cookie called Butter Drop Do's. What does any good cook do? They substitute, and that's exactly what Ruth did. She substituted a Nestle semisweet chocolate bar for the nuts. She thought the chocolate would melt and mix in with the cookie dough while baking, but to her surprise and the pleasant surprise of her customers, the chocolate melted a little but there were still chucks of the chocolate remaining. Ruth's new Chocolate Crispies were highly demanded by her customers.
Somehow the recipe was published in a Boston newspaper and the cookie caught on with the New Englanders which increased the sale of Nestle's semisweet candy bar. Well, this caught the attention of Nestle. They did discover the source of the success of their candy bar and to make it even easier for bakers to use they scored the bars so they would break easily. Nestle went so far as to market a special chopper for cutting the chocolate into pieces..
By 1939 the Nestle Company began making chocolate in the chips we are now familiar with. They bought the Toll House name from the Wakefields back in the 40''s and the rest is history!
You can find this recipe on any package of Nestle Semisweet chocolate chips and I have also included this recipe on my blog. It is nice to know my love affair with the Chocolate Chip Cookie has such a nice history and is still popular today.
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