Ruth Graves Wakefield (June 17, 1903 – January 10, 1977) was the inventor of the Toll House Cookie, the first chocolate chip cookie. I need some facts about Ruth Wakefield, since I'm doing an important paper for school. If you know any facts, list them in the answers.
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The original chocolate chip cookie was created in 1930 by Ruth Wakefield, who ran the Toll House Restaurant outside of Whitman, Massachusetts.
Mrs. Wakefield, in a moment of brilliant inspiration, cut up bars of chocolate to add to a basic butter-cookie dough. History was made. Today the chocolate-chip cookie is the most popular in the United States.
The semisweet chocolate bar that was used was a Nestlé chocolate bar. Ruth Wakefield eventually approached Nestlé and together, they reached an agreement that allowed Nestlé to print what would become the Toll House Cookie recipe on the wrapper of their Semisweet Chocolate Bar. Part of this agreement included supplying Ruth with all of the chocolate she could use to make her delicious cookies for the rest of her life.
In 1939, Nestlé began offering tiny pieces of chocolate in convenient, ready-to-use packages and that is how the first Nestlé Toll House Real Semisweet Chocolate Morsels were introduced.
how ruth wakefield's chocolate chip recipe was REALLY discovered.
That's not how it happened, what most people think. Most think Ruth went to Nestle on her own. Nestle found Ruth, because she was buying up all of their chocolate bars in new England, an they wanted to find out where they were going. So they tracked her down and it wasn't long til they were knocking on her door.
