The chocolate chip cookie is the Miss America of desserts. Every year, huge amounts are baked and consumed, but this favorite treat is surprisingly new to the dessert world, considering its popularity with both adults and children. Yet, while thousands of recipes exist, few wonder what the very first was.
In 1930, just as the Great Depression was beginning Ruth and Kenneth Wakefield opened up a restaurant they called the Toll House. For the first eight years, business was scarce, and the Wakefields couldn’t even afford to buy different plates for salad and dessert. But the Wakefields hung in there, and by 1938 the convenient location between Boston and Cape Cod and Ruth’s fabulous menu choices (especially the dessert) brought success to the Toll House.
Many fantastical myths exist about the creation of the cookie. Some say that Ruth ran out of baker’s chocolate for her famous drop cookies and instead used Nestle chocolate, expecting it to melt and spread throughout the cookie. According to food writer Carolyn Wyman though, Wakefield had a degree in household arts and was a known perfectionist. Wyman argues that Ruth would never have allowed the Toll House to run out of something as crucial as baker’s chocolate. In less enchanting reality, Ruth loved experimenting with her recipes and one day substituted Nestle
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She did, however, receive free Nestle chocolate for the rest of her life, which more than compensated for the missing dollar. The owner of the recipe didn’t change people’s love for it, though. A warm chocolate chip cookie let the suffering of the Great Depression slip from the consumer’s mind for a brief moment of bliss. Thousands of cookies were sent in care packages to soldiers once the U.S. got involved in World War II. The sweetness of the cookie brought a small bit of happiness to people in dark
“His decision to focus on the production of the Hershey milk chocolate bar is now hailed as one of the most important decisions in the history of American business” (Milton Hershey 1). Certain aspects of Milton Hershey’s life are impossible to not take notice of. A simple chocolate bar completely changed the world of business, Milton S. Hershey impacted the world in a huge way.
An average human will eat almost 19,000 chocolate chip cookies in their lifetime. And the great person who let us have all those cookies, is the person that invented it, which is Ruth Wakefield. But, did you ever think about how it was before that cookie was invented? Probably not, the chocolate chip cookie, started so many other inventions. Imagine life without chocolate chip cookies, we would miss so much more than just than the one treat. Your last chocolate chip cookie probably wasn´t very long ago, that´s why you will be interested in this topic. Today I am here to convince you that Ruth Wakefield, the creator of the chocolate chip cookie, needs to memorialized for her invention. In my speech today I will cover why Ruth Wakefield should
Madelyn McQueen - Twin Falls Idaho Have you ever wondered how the delicious, classic treat came to be? Well, any event you can think of after the date of 1938, the cookie was bound to be there. Several stories about how the country’s favorite baked good came to be, have been spread and believed by thousands. For example, Ruth Wakefield unexpectedly ran out of nuts for a regular ice-cream cookie recipe and, in desperation, replaced them with chunks chopped out of a bar of Nestle bittersweet chocolate. Another story is said that the vibrations from an industrial mixer caused chocolate stored on a shelf in the Toll House kitchen to fall into a bowl of cookie dough as it was being mixed. Sadly, all of these stories are false, says Carolyn Wyman in her recently published “Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Book.” In her book, Wyman offers a more believable version of how the cookie came to be. Wyman argues, that Ruth Wakefield, who had a degree in household arts and a reputation for perfectionism, would not have allowed her restaurant, which was famed for its desserts, to run out of such
What do you think of when you hear the word kiss? Milton Hershey did not want you to think of the romantic gesture of lips smacking together. Instead he invented the Hershey Kiss. This great invention is mouthwatering, milk chocolate that millions of people consume every year. The famous Kiss was invented in 1907 by Milton S. Hershey. Hershey wanted to intertwine romance and his passion of making chocolate. This chocolate sensation became popular for its odd tear-shaped piece of chocolate. Hershey Kisses have evolved into the fascinating chocolates people continue eating today. The multimillion dollar company continues to expand its candy making. The Hershey’s Chocolate Company took time to develop, but once they came
University of North Carolina, 2010. Web. 16 Oct. 2013. <http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/1866> Coe, Sophie D., and Michael D. Coe. The True History of Chocolate.
Milton S. Hershey was born in a small Pennsylvania town named Derry Township on September 13, 18571. He was the only child of Fannie and Henry Hershey. His mother was a Mennonite2 and moved often, which disrupted his education and could only finish 4th grade3. Hershey became an apprentice of a Lancaster candy maker for four years and started to get into the candy business. Milton opened his first candy store in Philadelphia on 1876 at the age of 184which failed after 6 years and went bankrupt on 1882.5 Milton then tried his luck at opening candy stores at Chicago and New York, both resulting in failure and went bankrupt again on 1886.6 When Milton visited Denver, he discovered how to mix fresh milk with caramel and returned to Lancaster to start a caramel business on 1883. 7his business proved to be a huge success and was named the Lancaster Caramel Company8. The success of this caramel company was the thing that set Milton as a candy maker and provided him with financial stability to start on his next interest, chocolate. Milton purchased his first chocolate-making equipment from a German company called J.M.Lehmamm Company on 1893 that was displayed in the World’s Columbian Expedition9. He started a sub-company called Hershey Chocolate Company under the Lancaster Caramel Company and began to produce chocolates. On 1900, Hershey sold his successful caramel company for $1,000, 0010and in order to set his sights to begin mass-producing chocolate. Hershey needed a place to produce that much chocolate and returned to Derry Township, PA to build his new factory on 1903. The Derry Township was an ideal location for producing chocolate because of its source of water, fresh milk, and workers. The factory, later named The Chocolate Factory was built on 1905 and used latest mass production techniques that produced the first milk chocolate that was made in America 11.
Mildred Day and Malitta Jensen had a problem. Often times amazing things can happen when people can find a solution to a problem. These homemakers were leaders of a Campfire Girls group. They needed the girls to make something that they could sell to raise funds for activities. The year was 1939 and these two busy ladies came up with Rice Krispie treats. They have truly become a world wide treat.
“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”- Dalai Lama. In my opinion, the chocolate chip cookie has an interesting story. A woman named Ruth Wakefield discovered this delicious treat and from then on, everyone came to know it as the famous chocolate chip cookie. In fact, the chocolate chip cookie is one of America’s favorite cookies. Ruth Wakefield was an amazing and very lucky baker.
Before Milton Hershey had a world wide known chocolate business, he had a small, not so well known caramel business. Milton Hershey began his chocolate making business in 1893, when his father and him traveled to Chicago to attend a big job fair (Tarshis 14), but it wasn’t until 1900 when Hershey succeed in making the first milk chocolate candy bar (The Hershey Company). Hershey attended an exhibit hall of new and amazing inventions around the world at the fair in Chicago. As Hershey walked into the exhibit hall, he was struck by a delectable smell (Tarshis 14). “Hershey was already a leading candy maker. He had created the largest caramel factory in the country, but he became convinced that the future of his business would be chocolate. At the fair in Chicago, Hershey Bought chocolate-making equipment. He had it shipped back to his caramel factory in Pennsylvania. Then he hired two chocolate makers. Soon the company was churning out chocolate candies in more than 100 shapes” (Tarshis 15).
...terized as the “Henry Ford of Chocolate Makers.” With the help from his aunt, he established his own candy business in Philadelphia in 1876, he was merely 19. He mainly produced caramel confections, which he ended up selling for one million dollars after a trip to the chocolate centers of Europe. With the money, Hershey bought a farm in Derry Township, Pennsylvania, and built his chocolate factory. This became the nucleus of “Hershey, the Chocolate Town.”
The Famous Amos cookies sold $300,000 the first year in the business. The very next year he sold $1,000,000 in sales the following year afterward. By 1982 the cookies had earned at least 12 million dollars. The cookies were such a success they were eventually sold in supermarkets across the United States. They eventually went into places like TGI Fridays, Baskin-Robins, and Starbucks. Eventually all good business must come to an end because in 1985, Wally Amos sold the company to the Shansby Group. Though it wasn’t his company still, Wally still was a spokesperson for the company for a year before quitting because of frustration. The company was eventually sold to many companies including President Baker and Keebler. Even though his business didn’t fall through he still didn’t quit. Eventually Amos created another company called Chip and Cookie. The new cookies are slightly different from the Kellogg version or variation and is only ran by Wally himself.
How was the fortune cookie made? The fortune cookie was made by a man named Makoto Hagiwara and there are also about three more legends or myths about how the fortune cookie was made. Fortune cookies are made of flour, sugar, vanilla, and sesame seed oil with a piece of paper inside. There are also 60 million fortune cookies made each month. They are eaten by chopsticks by most people because they want to feel like the Chinese. There are about four different myths about how fortune cookies were made.(http://www.factmonster.com) Unlike other cookies, the fortune cookie does not taste sweet or have chocolate in it, but has a nice flavor to the cookie and also has a piece of paper unlike any other cookie.
When I think of snacks, I always think of chocolate chip cookies. They just melt in your mouth like marshmallows and sweeten your mouth quickly. Once you start eating, you cannot stop. Chocolate chip cookies are easy to make and are a favorite of both children and adults. Chocolate chip cookies are one of the most convenient treats to take to potlucks, family holidays, and to give as gifts. Out of all the recipes for chocolate chip cookies that I have tried, I have can conclude that this recipe is the best! With only these steps, you can eat them whenever you want wherever and are very easy to carry around. Be prepared to make the best chocolate chip cookies you’ve ever eaten!
The recipe was named the Toll House Cookie. One day Nestlé was going over their
There are many different variations of how Ice Cream was first made and one of these stories include Charles I of England who had first tasted Ice Cream in his banquet prepared by a Drench chef, DeMirco, and Charles had loved it so