Chocolate chip cookie
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A chocolate chip cookie is a drop cookie that contains pieces of chocolate mixed into the dough before baking. Texture and appearance vary with ingredients and preparation, ranging from moist, chewy c
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Illustration of a girl holding a pile of jumbles, 1873
Toll House cookie
Toll House Inn, photographed in 1984
Toll House Inn
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The Toll House Inn was an inn located in Whitman, Massachusetts, established in 1930 by Kenneth and Ruth Graves Wakefield. The Toll House chocolate chip cookies are named after the inn.
Chocolate chip cookie
…her recipe for chocolate chip cookies in the 1930s, although sources differ on the specific year. With her husband Kenneth, Wakefield owned and ran the Toll House Inn, a hotel and restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts, that was well-known in the region. Several accounts exist of how Wakefield created her recipe for…
The restored sign of the Toll House Inn, with a commemorative plaque underneath