Editing Chocolate chip cookie (section)

==History==

===Toll House cookie===
{{Infobox prepared food
| name            = Toll House cookie
| image           = Choc-Chip-Cookie.jpg
| image_size      = 220px
| caption         = 
| alternate_name  =
| country         = United States
| region          = [[Whitman, Massachusetts|Whitman]], [[Massachusetts]]
| creator         = [[Ruth Graves Wakefield]], [[Toll House Inn]]
| course          = [[Dessert]] or [[snack]]
| served          =
| year            = 1938
| main_ingredient = [[Flour]], [[sugar]], [[brown sugar]], [[butter]] or [[margarine]], [[chocolate chip]]s, [[egg (food)|eggs]], [[vanilla]], [[baking soda]], [[salt]]
| variations = Multiple, including adding nuts, oatmeal, peanut butter
| calories = 
| other =
}}

The most notable chocolate chip cookie recipe was invented by American chef [[Ruth Graves Wakefield]] in 1938.<ref name= "Baker's Daughter">{{cite web | website= WCVB5 | date= June 21, 2017 | url= https://www.wcvb.com/article/bakers-daughter-reveals-real-recipe-for-toll-house-chocolate-chip-cookies/10199253 | title= Baker's daughter reveals 'real recipe' for Toll House chocolate chip cookies | accessdate= 2021-09-30 | archive-date= 2017-12-27 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171227113121/http://www.wcvb.com/article/bakers-daughter-reveals-real-recipe-for-toll-house-chocolate-chip-cookies/10199253 | url-status= live }}</ref><ref name="Stephanos">{{Cite news|url=http://www.wcvb.com/article/bakers-daughter-reveals-real-recipe-for-toll-house-chocolate-chip-cookies/10199253|title=Secret's out! Here's the 'real recipe' for Toll House chocolate chip cookies|last=Stephanos|first=Maria|date=2017-06-21|publisher=WCVB|access-date=2017-06-22|language=en|archive-date=2017-12-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171227113121/http://www.wcvb.com/article/bakers-daughter-reveals-real-recipe-for-toll-house-chocolate-chip-cookies/10199253|url-status=live}}</ref> She invented the recipe during the period when she owned the [[Toll House Inn]], in [[Whitman, Massachusetts]]. In this era, the Toll House Inn was a popular restaurant that featured home cooking. A myth holds that she accidentally developed the cookie, and that she expected the chocolate chunks would melt, making chocolate cookies. That is not the case; Wakefield stated that she deliberately invented the cookie. She said, "We had been serving a thin butterscotch nut cookie with ice cream. Everybody seemed to love it, but I was trying to give them something different. So I came up with Toll House cookie."<ref name=cookiebook>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XXb0AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA23|title=The Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Book: Scrumptious Recipes & Fabled History from Toll House to Cookie Cake Pie|author=Carolyn Wyman|publisher=Countryman Press|year=2013|page=23|isbn=9781581571622|access-date=March 21, 2014}}</ref> She added chopped up bits from a [[Nestlé]] semi-sweet chocolate bar into a cookie.<ref>{{cite news|title=Chocolate Chip Cookie Day and the accidental origin of this American staple|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/04/us/chocolate-chip-cookie-history-trnd|publisher=CNN|date=20 October 2017|access-date=20 October 2017|archive-date=27 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171227153027/http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/04/living/chocolate-chip-cookie-history-trnd/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The original recipe in ''Toll House Tried and True Recipes''<ref>{{cite book | last=Wakefield | first= Ruth Graves | title=Ruth Wakefield's Toll House Tried and True Recipes | publisher=M. Barrows & Company | year=1942}}</ref> is called "Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookies". Wakefield gave Nestle the recipe for her cookies and was paid with a lifetime supply of chocolate from the company.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.epicurious.com/archive/blogs/editor/2014/07/things-you-didnt-know-about-chocolate-chip-cookies.html|title=5 Things You Didn't Know About Chocolate Chip Cookies {{!}} Epicurious.com|website=Epicurious|date=30 July 2014|language=en|access-date=2020-03-29|archive-date=2020-05-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200510215106/https://www.epicurious.com/archive/blogs/editor/2014/07/things-you-didnt-know-about-chocolate-chip-cookies.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Roberts |first1=Sam |title=Overlooked No More: Ruth Wakefield, Who Invented the Chocolate Chip Cookie |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/obituaries/overlooked-ruth-wakefield.html |access-date=8 May 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=22 March 2018}}</ref>

===Later history===
Wakefield's cookbook, ''Toll House Tried and True Recipes'', was first published in 1936 by M. Barrows & Company, New York. The 1938 edition of the cookbook was the first to include the recipe "Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie" which rapidly became a favorite cookie in American homes.<ref name=cookiebook/>

During World War II, soldiers from [[Massachusetts]] who were stationed overseas shared the cookies they received in [[care package]]s from home with soldiers from other parts of the United States. Hundreds of soldiers wrote home asking their families to send them Toll House cookies, and Wakefield received letters from around the world requesting her recipe,<ref>{{cite book | last=Jones | first= Charlotte Foltz | title=Mistakes That Worked | publisher=Doubleday | year=1991 | isbn= 0-385-26246-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.verybestbaking.com/products/tollhouse/history.aspx|title=History of Nestlé Toll House|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223033704/http://www.verybestbaking.com/products/tollhouse/history.aspx|archive-date=2009-02-23}}</ref> helping spread their popularity beyond the east coast.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/sweet-morsels-a-history-of-the-chocolate-chip-cookie|title=Sweet Morsels: A History of the Chocolate-Chip Cookie|last=Michaud|first=Jon|magazine=The New Yorker|date=19 December 2013|language=en|access-date=2020-03-29|archive-date=2019-07-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190729004356/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/sweet-morsels-a-history-of-the-chocolate-chip-cookie|url-status=live}}</ref> Chocolate chip cookies were first sold in the UK in 1956 by [[Maryland Cookies]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.burtonsbiscuits.com/our-brands/maryland/ | access-date = 27 March 2014 | last = Burton's Biscuit Company | title = Maryland cookies | archive-date = 29 March 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140329093636/http://www.burtonsbiscuits.com/our-brands/maryland/ | url-status = live }}</ref>

===Original recipe===
Sue Brides, a baker who worked with [[Ruth Graves Wakefield]] at the [[Toll House Inn]], passed down the original recipe to her daughter, Peg, who shared it in a 2017 interview:<ref name="Stephanos"/>

* {{frac|1|1|2}} cups (350 mL) shortening
* {{frac|1|1|8}} cups (265 mL) sugar
* {{frac|1|1|8}} cups (265 mL) brown sugar
* 3 eggs
* {{frac|1|1|2}} teaspoon (7.5 g) salt
* {{frac|3|1|8}} cups (750 mL) of flour
* {{frac|1|1|2}} teaspoon (7.5 g) hot water
* {{frac|1|1|2}} teaspoon (7.5 g) baking soda
* {{frac|1|1|2}} teaspoon (7.5 g) vanilla
* chocolate chips (The ''Tried and True Recipes'' cookbook specifies "2 bars (7 oz.) Nestlé's yellow label chocolate, semi-sweet, which has been cut in pieces the size of a pea.").