So I'm sitting down watching a little TV while having my morning coffee. In a few I'll be up and working on pictures...but first -Sylvia left me a chocolate chip cookie before she was off to work. Bingo! A story appears on the news about Ruth Wakefield.
In the 1930's she and her husband ran the Tollhouse Inn. Her chocolate cookies were the darling treat of friends and guests. As she was making a batch she reached for the cocoa and found an empty can. Ooops. She noticed a chocolate candy bar and improvised by breaking it up into tiny bits and mixing it into the dough. But, it didn't melt as expected, simply got soft. She served it anyway with an apology.
There was no need to apologize. The guests loved her invention -the chocolate chip cookie. Word spread. The recipe ended up in the local newspaper. Nestle began making chocolate drops and printed her recipe on the back of their packages.
Today, 6 billion times a year, someone in America is biting into a chocolate chip cookie. Yum. Thanks Syl...good breakfast treat.
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