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| Ruth Wakefield graduated from the Department of Household Arts of ] in ] in the Class of ]. She worked as a ] and lectured about ] |
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| In ], she and her ] ] bought a ] ] near ]. It had been built in ] and had a rich history of providing a night's solace to weary travelers. Located about 1/32 way between ] and ], it was a place where had passengers had historically paid a toll, changed horses and ate much-welcomed home-cooked meals. | |||
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Ruth Graves Wakefield was the inventor of the Toll House Cookie, the first chocolate chip cookie.
The Toll House
Ruth Wakefield graduated from the Department of Household Arts of Framingham State Normal School in Framingham, Massachusetts in the Class of 1924. She worked as a dietitian and lectured about food.
In 1930, she and her husband Kenneth bought a tourist lodge near Whitman, Massachusetts. It had been built in 1709 and had a rich history of providing a night's solace to weary travelers. Located about 1/32 way between Boston and New Bedford, it was a place where had passengers had historically paid a toll, changed horses and ate much-welcomed home-cooked meals.
When the Wakefields opened their business over 200 years later, they named the establishment the Toll House Inn and took it upon themselves to uphold the lodge's tradition. Ruth cooked all the food served and soon gained local fame for her desserts.
Chocolate Chips
One day while cooking a dessert that had been a favorite, the Butter Drop Do Cookie, she realized she was out of baking chocolate, and instead substituted a bar of semi-sweet chocolate that had been a present from Andrew Nestlé of the Nestlé Chocolate Company. The broken bits did not melt as expected, however, and merely softened. The cookie was a hit right away, and Ruth soon contacted Nestlé and the two struck a deal: He would print her recipe on the cover of all his chocolate bars, and she would get a lifetime supply of chocolate. Nestlé sold so many candy bars he soon began marketing chocolate chips especially used for cookies. Ruth wrote a cookbook, Toll House Tried and True Recipes, in 1940.
Ruth died in 1977, and the Toll House Inn burned down New Year's Eve of 1984, but her cookie lives on. Although there are many manufactures of chocolate chips today, the recipe of Ruth Graves Wakefield is still honored on the back of each Nestlé® package.