The chocolate chip cookie was invented by a lady named Ruth Wakefield in 1933 and like many great recipes today it was discovered
completely by accident. Ruth was the owner of the Toll house Inn which was located in Whitman, Massachusetts which was a very popular place to take in some good home cooked meals.

They say Ruth regularly made chocolate cookies using bakers chocolate, but one day she ran out and only had access to a nestle semi sweet chocolate so she broke the bar into pieces and mixed it into the batter thinking it would melt and mix with it. And of course the chocolate pieces did not mixed like the bakers chocolate and the nestle toll house chocolate chip cookie was born.

Ruth Wakefield then sold the recipe to Nestle in exchange for a lifetime supply of chocolate chips. Nestle has since printed the recipe on the back of every bag of chocolate chips they have sold in North America with one small variation which is the option of using margarine over butter.

During world war two nestle toll house cookies were being sent to GI’s from Massachusetts who would then share them with other American
from different parts of the states. This lead to several soldiers writing home asking for Nestle toll house cookies which lead to many
people contacting Ruth wanting her recipe which lead to a nation wide craze for these delicious cookies.

However the history of chocolate chip cookies has more then just one story. George Boucher and his daughter Carol Cavanagh worked together at the toll house inn and Carol states that Wakefield being a seasoned baker and publisher of books would know the property of chocolate and know it wouldn’t melt and mix in.

Boucher states the real story is that his electric mixer knocked some nestle chocolate off the shelf into his sugar cookie mix from the vibrations and it got mixed together and formed chunks of chocolate in the mix. Boucher claims Wakefield wanted to throw away the mix because in her eyes it was ruined, but he wanted to keep it and bake it.

And so he did forming chocolate chip cookies. Who knows if his story is true or not, but it very well could be.

You can get the recipe at the end of the paragraph for these cookies. The most cherished memories of my childhood were of the smells of baking delicious cookies. As I would walk in the door on my house from school I could smell the goodness waiting for me. Many times the cookies were not yet iced and I would sneak one away. Popping a piece of the fresh baked cookie into my mouth was warm and inviting. My mother would usually ask me if I want to help her ice the rest. We had good times and it warmed my heart to take a box of these cookies I helped decorate to people in the nursing home that could no longer come visit us at home for the holidays. Many older people for some reason just love sweet things and their eyes would usually light up as we walked in the door with boxes in our hands. Their delight was not from what present did we bring as they no longer had cares of materials tings but a nice chat with a young person and a delicious cookie filling their tummy was cheer enough for them.

My mom and I never shared our recipes. We did this not be greedy but enjoyed baking so much and giving to others that when prompted for the recipe only replied how many did you want and we would go home and happily make enough for them to have.

Of course times have changed. The recipe my Grandmother changed and my mother changed again has landed in my possession. I don’t quite have the time I did when I was a child but still enjoy baking when I have a chance. The cherished moments with my children when we do have a chance to make a batch of cookies is priceless. Of course with now 3 teenagers in the home and their friends stopping by the batch of cookies does not last more than a day but that makes you feel good.

My mom and I still make cookies as we have ladies order 100 dozen or more for themselves to give as gifts to family and friends and they can no longer bake themselves and the cookies remind them of what they use to be able to bake and they still like to give their families home based goodies instead of store bought preservatives.

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