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  Ruth Graves Wakefield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ruth Graves Wakefield (June 17, 1903-January 10, 1977) was the inventor of the Toll House Cookie, the first chocolate chip cookie.
Ruth Wakefield graduated from the Department of Household Arts of Framingham State Normal School in Framingham, Massachusetts in the Class of 1924.
Ruth cooked all the food served and soon gained local fame for her desserts.
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 Inventor of the Week: Archive
In 1930, Ruth and her husband Kenneth Wakefield purchased a Cape Cod-style toll house located halfway between Boston and New Bedford, on the outskirts of Whitman, Massachusetts.
Ruth cooked home-made meals and baked for guests of the inn, and as she improved upon traditional Colonial recipes, her incredible desserts began attracting people from all over New England.
Needless to say, the cookies Ruth had created became very popular with guests at the inn, and soon her recipe was published in a Boston newspaper, as well as other papers in the New England area.
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 RUTH GRAVES WAKEFIELD Recipe
Wakefield was making chocolate cookies but ran out of regular baker’s chocolate and substituted broken pieces of semi-sweet chocolate, assuming it would melt and mix into the batter.
Ruth Graves Wakefield, a graduate of Household Arts from the Framingham State Normal School Department, ran a B&B with her husband, Keneth.
Ruth Wakefield, the inventor of the chocolate chip cookie, and her husband Kenneth, operated the Toll House Restaurant in Whiman, Mass., south of Boston.
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 BBC - h2g2 - The Chocolate Chip Cookie
Ruth produced home cooked meals in the restaurant and baked for the guests in the Lodge, she also started improving traditional Colonial recipes and gradually her desserts and baked goods gained a reputation that began to attract people from all over New England to her restaurant.
Ruth had expected the chocolate to melt when the cookies were baking but when she took them out she found that the chunks had held their shape but had softened instead.
Ruth continued to cook and bake until she and Kenneth sold the Toll House Lodge in 1966, she also wrote a number of cookery books.
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 Toll House Cookie
Wakefield became the inventor of the first chocolate chip cookie using a bar of semi-sweet chocolate made by the Nestlé company.
Ruth soon contacted the Nestlé and they struck a deal: The company would print her recipe on the cover of all their semi-sweet chocolate bars, and she would get a lifetime supply of chocolate.
Ruth died in 1977, and the Toll House Inn burned down New Year's Eve of 1984, but her cookie lives on.
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 RUTH GRAVES WAKEFIELD Chocolate
Wakefield was making chocolate but ran out of regular and substituted broken pieces of, assuming it would melt and mix into the batter.
Ruth Wakefield's toll house or chocolate chip cookies would pave the way for cookie and food empires of contemporary women such as and Chicomecoatl Aztec Goddess of Food References: Patently Female by Ethlie Ann Vare and Greg Ptacek (John Wiley and Sons, 2002), pp.38.
Wakefield was making chocolate Any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term) [For more facts about this topic, click this link] s but ran out of regular Chocolate is a common ingredient in many kinds of sweets-one of the most popular in the world....
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 Whittemore Library Special Collections: Wakefield Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Ruth Graves graduated from the Framingham State Normal School Department of Household Arts in 1924.
Ruth's interest in seeking new and innovative recipes to serve at the couple's restaurant led her to amass a collection of cookbooks.
In 1969, two years after the Wakefields sold the Toll House Inn, Ruth Graves Wakefield donated her cookbooks to the Special Collections.
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Ruth Graves Wakefield graduated from the Framingham State Normal School Department of Household Arts in 1924.
She approached the Nestle company and they agreed to put Ruth's recipe on Nestle's chocolate wrappers.
Ruth Wakefield's toll house or chocolate chip cookies would pave the way for cookie and food empires of contemporary women such as Debbie Fields and Martha Stewart.
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 Ruth Graves Wakefield
The original chocolate chip cookie, the Toll House Cookie, was invented by Ruth Graves Wakefield in the 1930s.
Ruth cooked for her guests, and one day had to substitute semi-sweet chocolate for baker's chocolate in a cookie recipe.
She chopped the chocolate in bits, but when she took the cookies from the oven, the semi-sweet chocolate had not melted into the dough as the baker's chocolate had.
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 chocolate chip cookies
Ruth, like any good bed and breakfast owner, prepared food for her guests at the Inn and gained local notoriety for her baking.
At that time Ruth Wakefield approached the Nestle Co. and they reached an agreement: Nestle was allowed to print the recipe on the wrapper of their Semi-Sweet Chocolate.
In exchange Ruth received all the chocolate she could use to make cookies for the rest of her life.
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 Daily Celebrations ~ Sandra Boynton, Likes Chocolate ~ August 20 ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and inspire
Toll House cookies were first invented in 1930 by dietitian and food lecturer Ruth Graves Wakefield who with her husband converted an 18th century rest stop for horses into a popular restaurant called the Toll House near Whitman, Massachusetts.
One day, Wakefield was fixing a batch of her popular chocolate butter drop cookies.
Wakefield's permission, the candy company published her recipe on the back of the chocolate chips bag.
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 WhitmanMA.net for businesses, consumers and residents - calendar, sports, activities, business   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Instead of melting into the dough as intended the morsels remained clumps of melted chocolate, and the toll house cookie, also known as the chocolate chip cookie, was born.
Ruth's recipe was later published and became quite popular in New England.
Kenneth and Ruth sold the Inn in 1966, and it became a nightclub.
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 When Was Ruth Graves Wakefield Born - Graves History Washington Parish - www.graves.mustangparts.be   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Ruth Hitchcock was born on 18 Sep 1704 in Springfield, Hampden Co...
John Graves (33) was born 10 May 1674 in Sudbury, MA, and died 9 April 1762 in Westborough, MA.
Ruth Waldo (43) was born about 1695 and died 1729-1740, both in Windham, CT.   She married Isaac Crane...
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 Chocolate Chip Cookies
It actually was the site of a real toll house built in 1709, where stage coach passengers ate a meal while horses were changed and a toll was taken for use of the highway between Boston and New Bedford, a prosperous whaling town.
Ruth had been trained as a home economics teacher, and Ken was in the food business.
One of the most popular recipes was the one for Chocolate Crunch Cookies, which Ruth invented in 1937 when she cut up a bar of Nestle's semi-sweet chocolate, thinking the pieces of chocolate would melt into the dough.
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 Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipes
Ruth was in charge of the meals for guests and it wasn’t long before she developed quite a reputation all over New England for her desserts.
Ruth was so pleased with this result that she continued to use the Nestle chocolate in her recipe.
Ruth and Nestle came to an agreement that would allow Nestle to print the "Toll House Cookie" recipe on its packaging.
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 The Tradition of the Chocolate Chip Cookie — Bronner’s Christmas Wonderland
The chocolate chip cookie was inadvertently created in 1930 by Ruth Graves Wakefield at the Toll House Inn in Whitman, MA.
Lacking bakers chocolate for her cookie recipe, she substituted a chopped semi-sweet chocolate bar, expecting it to melt into the batter during baking.
Ruth received a lifetime supply of chocolate for the rights to publish the recipe.
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 Toll House Cookie History - Invention of Toll House Cookies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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.
Part of the agreement between Nestle and Wakefield included supplying Ruth with all of the chocolate she could use to make her delicious cookies for the rest of her life.
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 When Was Ruth Graves Wakefield Born - Graves History Washington Parish - www.graves.dualsportsandcars.be   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Carolyn Ruth SONES was born on Dec 8 1939.
George Graves (1) was born in 1775 and lived in Plaistow, England.
London, and settled at the Wakefield Colony in the Republican Valley...
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 Ravenous Recipes: Chocolate Chip Cookies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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.
Ruth 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 our Semi-Sweet Chocolate Bar.
Wakefield's (which incidently is called Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookies in the book), it is not exactly the same.
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 Stupid Question ™
She liked it, so did everybody else, and the chocolate chip cookie was born.
She agreed to let them put the recipe on their chocolate bar wrappers as a sales-booster, while Nestle agreed to provide her with free chocolate for life.
Now Ruth is dead and the Toll House Inn is scattered ashes from a New Year’s Eve, 1984 blaze.
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 A Little Cookie History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
She worked as a dietitian and lectured on food, until, together with her husband she bought a tourist lodge named the Toll House Inn.
Ruth Wakefield prepared the recipes for the meals served to the guests at the Inn and gained local notoriety for her deserts.
Nestle would print the Toll House Cookie recipe on its packaging and Ruth Wakefield would have a lifetime supply of Nestle chocolate.
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 These cookies are official
As the story goes, Ruth Graves Wakefield and her husband, Kenneth, bought a restaurant in Whitman, Mass.
The Wakefields named their restaurant the Toll House Inn.
Wakefield eventually sold her cookie recipe to Nestle.
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 History of Cookies
The Toll House Restaurant site was once a real toll house built in 1709, where stage coach passengers ate a meal while horses were changed and a toll was taken for use of the highway between Boston and New Bedford, a prosperous whaling town.
One of Ruth's favorite recipes was an old recipe for "Butter Drop Do" cookies that dated back to colonial times.
Ruth approached the Nestle company 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.
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 Adventist HealthCare - Monday Meditations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It was a dietitian turned hotelier, Ruth Graves Wakefield, who invented what has since become an American classic-the chocolate chip cookie.
Scrounging around her kitchen she found a bar of baking chocolate that Andrew Nestle had given to her, so she broke it into pieces and added the chunks of chocolate to the flour, butter, and brown sugar dough.
Wakefield all the chocolate she could use for the rest of her life.
www.adventisthealthcare.com /AHC/mm/2005/0227.asp   (1848 words)

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