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On June 17, 1905, Ruth Wakefield was born in East Walpole, Masachusetts.
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The inventor of the chocolate chip cookie.
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Ruth Wakefield started education at the Framingham Sate Nrmal School Department of Household Arts. Later she worked as a dietitian.
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In this year, Ruth Wakefield and her husband Kenneth Donald Wakefield bought a toll house. It became a restaurant in which Ruth did all the cooking, and the place became known for the fabulous desserts, It was known as The Toll House Inn. Even John F. Kennedy visited her restaurant!
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When Ruth Wakefield was making a batch of Butter Drop Do cookies, one of her favorite recipes, she realized that she didn't have any baker's chocolate. This was a very important ingredient, so Ruth substituted the chocolate for pieces of Nestle's semisweet chocolate bars. This resulted in the choclate chip cookie, then called the toll house cookie. This was a new invention as the chocolate did not melt, instead it stayed in smei-soft pieces.
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While Ruth's cookie became more popular and was published in lots of newspapers in the area, Nestle was making a deal with the cook. They promised her a life time supply of chocolate, and they would print the recipe on the semisweet chocolate wrappers.
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Nestle started selling semisweet chocolate specifically for cookies. They even came with a knife, so you could cut your own chocolate. Eventually, Nestle just sold already cut chocolate chips.
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Ruth Graves Wakefield's cookbook, "Tollhouse Tried and True Recipes" was for the last time published. Before, it was printed 39 times!
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Ruth Wakefield died after a long illness in the Jordan Hospital in Plymouth, She was 73. Her husband lived on until his hundredth birthday in 1997
