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Ruth Jones Wakefield (née Graves; June 17, 1903 – January 10, 1977) was an American chef, known for her innovations in the baking field.She pioneered the first chocolate chip cookie recipe, an invention many people incorrectly assume was a mistake. [1]
A close-up of a chocolate chip cookie. A chocolate chip cookie is a drop cookie that features chocolate chips or chocolate morsels as its distinguishing ingredient. Chocolate chip cookies are claimed to have originated in the United States in 1938, when Ruth Graves Wakefield chopped up a Nestlé semi-sweet chocolate bar and added the chopped chocolate to a cookie recipe; however, historical ...
One of the most popular early cookies, which traveled especially well and became known on every continent by similar names, was the jumble, a relatively hard cookie made largely from nuts, sweetener, and water. Cookies came to America through the Dutch in New Amsterdam in the late 1620s. The Dutch word "koekje" was Anglicized to "cookie" or cooky.
Chocolate chips were created with the invention of chocolate chip cookies in 1937 when Ruth Graves Wakefield of the Toll House Inn in the town of Whitman, Massachusetts added cut-up chunks of a semi-sweet Nestlé chocolate bar to a cookie recipe. [1] [2] (The Nestlé brand Toll House cookies is named for the inn.) The cookies were a huge ...
These festive treats may remind you of a day at the circus as a child, but the story of how they came to be goes all way back to England in the late 1800s. The animal-shaped cookies soon made ...
A frozen cookie made from a layer of buttercream sandwiched between two cashew-meringue wafers coated with cookie crumbs Snickerdoodle: United States (New England) Sugar cookie made with butter or oil, sugar, and flour rolled in cinnamon sugar. Most distinctive feature is the cracked surface that can be crisp or soft depending on preparation ...
Keebler-Weyl Bakery became the official baker of Girl Scout Cookies in 1936, the first commercial company to bake the cookies (the scouts and their mothers had done it previously). By 1978, four companies were producing the cookies. [16] Little Brownie Bakers is the Keebler division still licensed to produce the cookies. [17]
The fortune cookies were made by a San Francisco bakery, Benkyodo. [5] [6] [7] David Jung, founder of the Hong Kong Noodle Company in Los Angeles, made a competing claim that he invented the cookie in 1918. [8] San Francisco's Court of Historical Review attempted to settle the dispute in 1983. During the proceedings, a fortune cookie was ...