A very popular cookie is the Chocolate Chip Cookie. A favorite treat of our family, we like it best right out of the oven.
Done in a drop style, chocolate chip cookie dough generally has brown sugar, white sugar, butter and semi-sweet chocolate chips as part of the ingredients.
Many variations exist of this cookie. Some can be with oatmeal, nuts, m&m's, or white chocolate. An example of a yummy variations is white chocolate and macadamia nut.
A favorite treat of mine made by Mrs. Fields is a cookie-wich. It has two cookies with frosting in between. Lots of sugar and calories of course! I do not have a Mrs. Fields stand near me anymore as it closed, luckily!
A lady by the name of Ruth Graves Wakefield is the one whom made this great treat. We owe her thanks. The famous name she gave them was "Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies".
Why "Toll House"? It was because she had bought an inn with her husband, Kenneth Wakefield in Massachusetts and was the cook there.
The Inn was a combination of a hotel and restaurant on a toll road back in those days. So the inn was in a sense a toll booth of yesteryear.
Ruth Graves Wakefield had written a cookbook in 1940's that had her recipes in it from the years of cooking at the inn. The cookbook was called "Ruth Wakefield's Recipes:Tried and True". It became a best selling cookbook.
The Toll House Inn was sold in the 1960's. It went through some changes, was sold in the 1970's, restored to it's original form. And it burned down in the 1980's.
Ruth Graves Wakefield lived from 1903 to 1977. She is buried in Massachusetts.
Massachusetts has the chocolate chip cookie as it's official cookie thanks to a proposal in 1997.
Each year billions of variations of this cookie are eaten by folks around the world. We owe Ruth Graves Wakefield a big thank-you for such a classic treat.
Done in a drop style, chocolate chip cookie dough generally has brown sugar, white sugar, butter and semi-sweet chocolate chips as part of the ingredients.
Many variations exist of this cookie. Some can be with oatmeal, nuts, m&m's, or white chocolate. An example of a yummy variations is white chocolate and macadamia nut.
A favorite treat of mine made by Mrs. Fields is a cookie-wich. It has two cookies with frosting in between. Lots of sugar and calories of course! I do not have a Mrs. Fields stand near me anymore as it closed, luckily!
A lady by the name of Ruth Graves Wakefield is the one whom made this great treat. We owe her thanks. The famous name she gave them was "Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies".
Why "Toll House"? It was because she had bought an inn with her husband, Kenneth Wakefield in Massachusetts and was the cook there.
The Inn was a combination of a hotel and restaurant on a toll road back in those days. So the inn was in a sense a toll booth of yesteryear.
Ruth Graves Wakefield had written a cookbook in 1940's that had her recipes in it from the years of cooking at the inn. The cookbook was called "Ruth Wakefield's Recipes:Tried and True". It became a best selling cookbook.
The Toll House Inn was sold in the 1960's. It went through some changes, was sold in the 1970's, restored to it's original form. And it burned down in the 1980's.
Ruth Graves Wakefield lived from 1903 to 1977. She is buried in Massachusetts.
Massachusetts has the chocolate chip cookie as it's official cookie thanks to a proposal in 1997.
Each year billions of variations of this cookie are eaten by folks around the world. We owe Ruth Graves Wakefield a big thank-you for such a classic treat.
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