The truth behind chocolate chip cookies
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
United States
June 30, 2016 12:51pm CST
Picture a delicious chocolate chip cookie....warm from the oven and bursting with flavorful chocolate chips. Now picture a chocolate cookie, a dark brown cookie without chocolate chips. That chocolate cookie is what Ruth Graves Wakefield attempted to make one day....here's the rest of the story.
Mr. and Mrs. Wakefield bought a little inn aptly named 'Toll House Inn'....since she was a dietitian she came up with all the recipes for the meals her guests would eat. One day back in 1930 she was busy mixing up a bath of chocolate cookies when she realized she had no baker's chocolate. What to do, what to do?
She figured if she used Nestles semi-sweet chocolate that it would melt and the chocolate would spread through out the dough and she would still have chocolate cookies. Wrong!
The chunks of chocolate didn't melt and what she wound up with was her now famous Toll House Cookies. So the next time you bit into a warm chocolate chip cookie fresh from the oven remember that you are eating Mrs. Wakefield's mistake!
Photo: pixabay.com/en/chocolate-chip-cookies-sunlight-940429/
http://women-inventors.com/Ruth-Wakefield.asp
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@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
1 Jul 16
@AbbyGreenhill I am. I learned how to make Toll House Cookies when I was twelve and have the recipe memorized. Both my sons learned how when they were about the same age. It's kind of an off-beat family tradition.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
1 Jul 16
@DWDavis A tasty tradition to say the least.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
30 Jun 16
Wow you are a witness to the story!
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
30 Jun 16
@AbbyGreenhill We always seem to want such items once the shops have closed.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
30 Jun 16
Me too. But now I want cookies and all I have are store bought oatmeal.
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@praveenkumar06 (4077)
• Hyderabad, India
1 Jul 16
wow that cool , can u share that recipe of Chocolate cookie i want to make in my home
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@praveenkumar06 (4077)
• Hyderabad, India
1 Jul 16
@AbbyGreenhill wow that cool , i want to make it in my home i can give to lot of friends a small gift of cookies to all
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
1 Jul 16
You need to get the pack of Nestles it's on there. I don't have any.
@LeaPea2417 (36442)
• Toccoa, Georgia
1 Jul 16
That is very interesting about the famous cookie's history. It was a wonderful mistake!
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@Drosophila (16573)
• Ireland
30 Jun 16
Not baked cookies ever! As I don't has a sweet tooth
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
1 Jul 16
No sweet tooth - oh my goodness.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
30 Jun 16
You got that right and now I'm drooling for one..darn!
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@Marilynda1225 (79731)
• United States
30 Jun 16
@AbbyGreenhill your photo certainly makes me want to dip one of those chocolate chips into a nice big glass of milk
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@sallypup (57884)
• Centralia, Washington
30 Jun 16
@AbbyGreenhill I think I was an adult when I realized that not ALL chocolate chip cookies had oats in them. My Mom put oats into everything it seemed like.
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
1 Jul 16
I learn something new every day here now I m so glad; she made an errore and gave us chocolate '
chip cookies thats just lovely wow
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
2 Jul 16
@AbbyGreenhill yes it was really very interestingto me too
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
1 Jul 16
I thought it was very interesting!
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@celticeagle (159058)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Jul 16
Ghee, haven't I seen this info some where before. Hmm. LOL
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
1 Jul 16
I am sure I'm not the first person who wrote about it.
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@divalounger (5849)
• United States
30 Jun 16
Still one of my absolute favorites!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
30 Jun 16
I enjoyed making them a lot more when I got my Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
1 Jul 16
the recipe is on the package, so I'm sure millions make them...but from the comments the Toll House Inn is closed.
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@LovingMyBabies (85127)
• Valdosta, Georgia
30 Jun 16
See sometimes mistakes can be a wonderful thing! Lol. Thanks for the cookie craving I now have! 
@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
30 Jun 16
Mmmm I can almost smell them, cooling down on the counter top....
@Marilynda1225 (79731)
• United States
30 Jun 16
I'm certainly glad that Mrs Wakefields made such a mistake!! I love to bake Toll House Chocolate Chip cookies
@JamesHxstatic (29242)
• Eugene, Oregon
30 Jun 16
What a fortunate mistake that was for all of us! Hmm, I think I need a cookie!
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
1 Jul 16
I know, I wonder how many are making those cookies today?
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@LindaCPearson (2241)
• United States
1 Jul 16
i will remember that and I will remember to thank her every time I bite into a chocolate chip cookie, which I hope is soon!
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
30 Jun 16
Yes, it's right on the package and you can't go wrong...even I make them good!
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