Chocolate chip cookies are a favorite treat for people of all ages, but without the famous woman inventor Ruth Wakefield, the world might never have tasted those sweet delights.Ruth was the inventor of Toll House Cookies, which today we just call Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Ruth was born on June 17, 1903, and she grew up in Easton, Massachusett and graduated from Oliver Ames High School in 1920. Wakefield was educated at Framingham State Normal School Department of Household Arts in 1924.Ruth then worked as a graduate and educator, a business owner and author of Toll House Tried and True Recipes, which was the first to include the recipe for a chocolate chip cookie. On 26 June 1926, she married Kenneth Donald Wakefield in North Easton, Bristol, Massachusetts.In 1930, she and her husband bought a tourist lodge in the town of Whitman, Massachusetts in Plymouth County.When the Wakefields opened their business, they named the establishment the Toll House Inn.The restaurant was relatively small at first, with only seven tables, able to seat 30 to 35 people. Later, they would expand that to 61 tables. One room of the Inn, the Garden Room, was built around an elm tree growing in the center of the room.The restaurant had many visitors, including Massachusetts' Senator John F. Kennedy.
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It is often incorrectly reported that the cookie was an accident and that Wakefield expected the chocolate chunks to melt making chocolate cookies. In reality, Wakefield stated that she deliberately invented the cookie. She said, "We had been serving a thin butterscotch nut cookie with ice cream. Everybody seemed to love it, but I was trying to give them something different. So I came up with Toll House cookie." At the time, she called her creations ‘Toll House Crunch Cookies.’ They became extremely popular locally, and the recipe was soon published in a Boston
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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
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Sadly, the Toll House restaurant burned down spectacularly on New Year’s Eve in 1984 and the spot is now home to a Wendy’s. The authorities in Whitman required the fast-food restaurant to include a small museum for Wakefield and the Toll House on its premises. January 10 of 1977, Ruth Wakefield passed away at the age of 73 due to an unknown illness. The chocolate-chip cookie celebrated its eightieth birthday this year and stays as the classic delight, loved by all Americans. The original Tollhouse Chocolate Chips now accommadate most of our cookies, which we can bake and enjoy simply in our cozy homes. Ruth Wakefield and her delicious invention will always have a special place in our heart, remaining in stores and restauraunts all around the
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(Attention Getter) It’s very likely that everyone in this room has tried to bake something before and failed miserably. You might have failed because you misread the directions or maybe you tried to substitute an ingredient, and ended up ruining the entire product. Well, I am here to give you guys a quick and easy recipe for chocolate chip cookies that even sleep-deprived college students can follow.
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...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.”
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