Have you ever had chocolate chip cookies? You probably have, but people like George
Washington, Abraham Lincoln, & Mark Twain (a.k.a. Samuel Clemens) didn't.
Ruth Wakefield invented chocolate chip cookies in 1930 at the inn she ran in Whitman,
Massachusetts. When she ran out of bakers chocolate, she broke up one of the bars of semi-sweet
chocolate that Andrew Nestle gave her. She thought that it would mix together with the dough &
make all chocolate cookies . Needless to say, it didn't. She called it the Toll House Cookie.
The Chocolate chip cookie is the most popular kind of cookie in America. Seven billion chocolate
chip cookies are eaten annually. The Toll House produces thirty-three thousand cookies each day.
Some Vendors only sell chocolate chip cookies. Half of the cookies baked in American homes are
chocolate chip.
Ruth's husband's name was Kenneth Wakefield . Ruth and Kenneth bought the Toll House Inn in
1930 . As the Toll House cookie became popular, Nestle began making their chocolate bars the
same way Ruth made the cookies, by making small chunks. Nestle supplied Ruth with chocolate.
Ruth and Kenneth sold the Toll House Inn in 1966. It was bought by a family that tried to turn it into
a nightclub . In 1970 it was bought by the Saccone family who turned it back into it's original form.
They continued to make the original recipe at a bakery down the road. The Toll House burned New
Years Eve in 1984. It was located on route 18 in Whitman , Massachusetts. It was originally a place
where horses were changed on the way from Boston to New Bedford.
By Sara O. & Suzanne M.
