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
