Introduction to the Chocolate Chip Cookie

The chocolate chip cookie, one of the most popular sweets then and today, without the chocolate chip cookie I don’t think anyone’s sweet tooth would be satisfied. It all began in 1930 when a dietitian, Ruth Wakefield, and her husband, Kenneth Wakefield bought a tourist lodge. The lodge was a place where weary travelers could pay tolls, trade horses, rest, and enjoy piping hot meals made by Ruth. The lodge was called the Toll House Inn. One day while Ruth was cooking her delicious “butter drop do” cookies for a customer she was missing an ingredient: baker’s chocolate. As a substitute Ruth used a chopped up Nestles chocolate bar (the chocolate bar was a gift from Henri Nestle), but instead of the chocolate melting completely (like the bakers chocolate would have done), the chocolate bits only softened while the dough cooked, thus creating the chocolate chip cookie. As news on the chocolate chip cookie spread out and Henri Nestle heard the news, Ruth and Henri made a deal. Henri would print the chocolate chip cookie recipe on every package of Nestle Chocolate Morsels and Ruth would receive a lifetime supply of chocolate in order to carry out her recipe.

Definitions:
Chocolate morsels- Chocolate morsels are another name for chocolate chips. Because Ruth used a chocolate bar chopped up into small morsels, the small chocolate pieces were called chocolate morsels.

Dietitian- a dietitian is a specialist in the study of nutrition.

Henri Nestle- a pharmacist who developed a food for babies who could not breastfeed. He is also the head creator of the Nestle Company.

Ruth Wakefield

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Historical Context

Historical Context

It didn’t take long for the chocolate chip cookie recipe to spread out across the land, in fact, Ruth’s recipe showed up in the headlines of the town’s newspaper. As Ruth continued carrying out her recipes she kept them all in a book for safekeeping. In 1940, she published her first cookbook, “Toll House Tried and True Recipes”. The book held all of her successful and tested recipes.

"Toll House Tried and True Recipes"
By: Ruth Wakefield
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Impact

Impact

The chocolate chip cookie was a big hit! Nestle sales prices in chocolate morsels went up, and the cookie became a very popular household treat for all. The recipe spread over the land and influenced people to make this delicious treat for their friends and family.

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Change Over Time

Change over time

In time the recipe had spread all over the world, over time the recipe had also been modified to satisfy every ones different tastes. For example the original recipe calls for nut but many people never put nuts in there cookies anymore either because they prefer no nuts or are allergic (being allergic to nuts was a very common thing). Or maybe they would add extra chocolate to make it a double chocolaty chip cookie, many people also make peanut butter cookies today as well, which is just adding peanut butter to the recipe with no nut or chocolate chips. Today the U.S. consumes 95.2% of cookies; this would mean 300 chocolate chip cookies eaten per person a year. In all, about 2 million cookies are eaten a year, and that’s just in the U.S.

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Significance

Significance

The chocolate chip cookie is one of the most popular/famous sweets in the U.S. Not only did the chocolate chip cookie bring up sales prices in local grocery stores, Pillsbury, and/or Kellogg but it was also a famous household wives baking treat. This recipe is so important to the U.S. today because so many people enjoy chocolate chip cookies. It also helped in the process of creating new cookies such as peanut butter, chocolate, thumbprint cookies, and so on. The significance of this tasty recipe was that it was shared out in public so households all over the world could bake it and share the recipe with friends and family. There was no secret ingredient, if there was then no one would be able to bake the cookies freely, people would have to buy it packaged in a grocery store. I’m glad the chocolate chip cookie was shared across the world and that Ruth had created the recipe, because as I said before, if the chocolate chip cookie was never created I don’t think any ones sweet tooth would ever be satisfied.

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