Who invented the chocolate chip flavour of this food item?

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Ruth Wakefield

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Answer: Ruth Wakefield

Ruth Graves Wakefield created the chocolate chip cookie (toll house cookie). She was a certified dietician who ran the cuisine of the inn she and her husband owned in Massachusetts.

Ruth Graves was born in 1903 in Easton, Massachusetts, and grew up there. Her education was furthered at Framingham State Normal School of Household Arts. She taught home economics in a high school in Brockton, Massachusetts, after graduating in 1924, and she also worked as a hospital dietitian.

Ruth married meatpacking executive Kenneth Wakefield in 1926. They bought an ancient house in Whitman, Massachusetts, four years later. The house was erected in 1817 as a private residence, although it was situated on what would have been a toll road connecting New Bedford and Boston. The Wakefields intended to open a small inn called the Toll House Inn in this historic area.

Ruth Wakefield and her cooking aide Sue Brides were experimenting with pecan drop cookie dough in 1938. People liked the original cookie recipe, which used half white sugar and half brown sugar, but Ruth thought there may be fascinating modifications. She intended to melt baker’s chocolate and incorporate it into the dough.

When she ran out of baker’s chocolate, she searched her cupboard and discovered semi-sweet chocolate bars given to her by Andrew Nestlé. (The Nestlé Company’s first product was condensed milk, but by 1930, they had expanded into several types of chocolate.) She cut the bar into little pieces and placed them on top of the blond dough.

When she prepared the cookies, she discovered that the chocolate had neither melted or been absorbed, and the diners adored them. Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookies was the name she gave the cookies.

Word spread as customers began to request the sweets. The Toll House Inn included the cookie recipe in some of their advertisements, and when a new edition of the cookbook was issued in the late 1930s, the recipe was included.

Furthermore, General Mills employed a woman called Marjorie Husted, who was popularly known as Betty Crocker. Wakefield’s cookies were featured on Husted/popular Crocker’s radio show.

Nestlé began making product adjustments to stimulate more sales as its sales increased. The first endeavour was to pre-score the bars so that home chefs could use the ingredient more easily.

However, it wasn’t long before Nestlé began packaging the chocolate in the form of chips. Chips became the standard.

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