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Invention of Toll House Cookies




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Back in 1930, Kenneth and Ruth Wakefield purchased a Cape
Cod-style toll house located halfway between Boston and New Bedford, on the
outskirts of Whitman, Massachusetts. Originally constructed in 1709, the
house served as a haven for road-weary travelers..
Here, passengers paid toll, changed horses, and ate much-welcomed
home-cooked meals. It was also here, over 200 years later, that the
Wakefield decided to open a lodge, calling it the Toll House Inn. In
keeping with the tradition of creating delicious homemade meals, Ruth baked
for guests who stayed at the Toll House Inn.
As she improved upon traditional Colonial recipes, Ruth's
incredible desserts began attracting people from all over New England. One
day, while preparing a batch of Butter Drop Do cookies, a favorite recipe
dating back to Colonial days, Ruth cut a bar of our Nestlé Semi-Sweet
Chocolate into tiny bits and added them to her dough, expecting them to
melt. Instead, the chocolate held its shape and softened to a
delicately creamy texture. The resulting creation became very popular at the
Inn. Soon, Ruth's recipe was published in a Boston newspaper, as well as
other papers in the New England area. Regional sales of Nestlé
Semi-Sweet Chocolate Bar skyrocketed.
Ruth eventually approached Nestlé and together, they reached an
agreement that allowed Nestle to print what would become the Toll House
Cookie recipe on the wrapper of the Semi-Sweet 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.
As the popularity of the Toll House cookie continued to grow
Nestle looked for ways to make it easier for people to bake. Soon, they
began scoring the Semi-Sweet Chocolate Bar, and packaged it with a special
chopper for easily cutting it into small morsels. Shortly after, in
1939, they began offering tiny pieces of chocolate in convenient,
ready-to-use packages and that is how the first Nestlé Toll House Real
Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels were introduced.


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