Chocolate Chip Day

The incredible chocolate chip! What a day to celebrate the chocolate chip. They are afraid of nearly every child and most adults.. technically, they are small chocolate chunks, but in honor of the day specifically named celebrate them let’s look at their history and they’re delicious uses

The origin seems to have started with Ruth Wakefield in 1938. She was the owner of the Toll House Inn. Home she served her popular butter drop cookie and periodically substituted chunks of a Nestlé sweet chocolate bar. It didn’t melt like baking chocolate and stayed in a similar chunk shape through baking, but so for the maximum taste experience.

The cookie was such a hit according to: “Mental Floss” (https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/56739/brief-history-chocolate-chip) 

It appeared in Wakefield's cookbook in 1938, and eventually, Ms. Wakefield struck a deal with Nestlé. They would feature her recipe on the back of every bar of semi sweet chocolate ever sold she’d get a lifetime supply of their fabulous chocolate.

There are multiple versions of the original story, but no matter the exact truth today we are the recipients of a great tollhouse cookie recipe. Hundreds of interpretations to the recipe and untold options commercially make it available for you to pick up a box at your local grocery store on the shelf from your bakery.

In case you want to get into the kitchen and bake up your own, I have included the original house cookie recipe here so that you can spoil yourself by making a batch and enjoying them hot and gooey straight out of the oven.

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Whether you stop by the bakery, cook up a batch of cookies at home, or just fill your hand with a handful of those magnificent chocolate chips, today celebrate national chocolate chip day.

Till next time

M. G.