If you have never had a chocolate chip cookie you have never lived. In 1938 one of the greatest cookies ever was invented and created by Ruth Wakefield. She accomplished so much by something so simple as a cookie. First it was local then it became news all around the country, then the world. This cookie has not only been part of my growing up but many others as well.
Ruth Graves was born on June 17 1903, in east Walpole, Massachusetts USA, she was an only child growing up with her mother Helen V Jones Graves and father Fred L Graves . In 1924 Ruth graduated from Framing state normal school department of the household arts. She grew up to be a dietician and food lecturer. In 1926 she was married to Kenneth Donald Wakefield. At the Inn she made the recipes and food for the guest. In 1928 Ruth had her …show more content…
In 1966 they sold the in and moved to Plymouth Massachusetts. She invented the chocolate chip cookie while she still lived at the Toll House Inn, in Whitman Massachusetts. After she invented the chocolate chip cookie she wrote a book called “ Toll House Tried and True”. After, thecookie started getting bigger publisity she started reciving hundreds of letters asking her for the recipie and that is when Nestle asked her if she would let them post her recipi on the side of there chocolate br and if she agreed she would get a life time supply of chocolate.
In 1938 Ruth was baking a batch of cookies for the Inn when she notice she was out of baker's chocolate. Instead, she used broken pieces of semi sweet chocolate instead. Thinking the pieces of chocolate would melt and turn the cookies into plain chocolate cookies, but the chocolate pieces didn’t melt instead they helped create the “Toll House Crunch Cookie”. When the cookie started getting bigger publicity people started to notice and soon every wanted the recipe for this delicious
Ruth Graves was born on June 17 1903, in east Walpole, Massachusetts USA, she was an only child growing up with her mother Helen V Jones Graves and father Fred L Graves . In 1924 Ruth graduated from Framing state normal school department of the household arts. She grew up to be a dietician and food lecturer. In 1926 she was married to Kenneth Donald Wakefield. At the Inn she made the recipes and food for the guest. In 1928 Ruth had her …show more content…
In 1966 they sold the in and moved to Plymouth Massachusetts. She invented the chocolate chip cookie while she still lived at the Toll House Inn, in Whitman Massachusetts. After she invented the chocolate chip cookie she wrote a book called “ Toll House Tried and True”. After, thecookie started getting bigger publisity she started reciving hundreds of letters asking her for the recipie and that is when Nestle asked her if she would let them post her recipi on the side of there chocolate br and if she agreed she would get a life time supply of chocolate.
In 1938 Ruth was baking a batch of cookies for the Inn when she notice she was out of baker's chocolate. Instead, she used broken pieces of semi sweet chocolate instead. Thinking the pieces of chocolate would melt and turn the cookies into plain chocolate cookies, but the chocolate pieces didn’t melt instead they helped create the “Toll House Crunch Cookie”. When the cookie started getting bigger publicity people started to notice and soon every wanted the recipe for this delicious