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==History== |
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The original toll house had been built in 1709 and had a rich history of providing a night's solace to weary travelers.<ref name="nestle">{{cite web|url=http://www.nestlecafe.com/TollHouseHistory/tabid/56/Default.aspx|title=Toll House History. Take a step back in Nestlé history.|publisher=[[Nestlé]]|accessdate=2009-07-30}}</ref> Located on what is now [[Route 18 (Massachusetts)|Route 18]] about halfway between [[Boston]] and [[New Bedford, Massachusetts]], it was a place where passengers historically paid a toll, changed horses, and ate home-cooked meals. Today, all that remains of the Toll House is its sign, still standing near the site of the inn. |
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The Wakefields upheld the lodge's tradition. Ruth cooked all the food served and soon gained local fame for her [[dessert]]s. In 1937, while adapting her butter drop dough cookie [[recipe]], she became the [[inventor]] of the first chocolate chip cookie using a bar of [[semi-sweet chocolate]] made by [[Nestlé]].<ref name="nestle"/><ref name="ideafinder">{{cite web|url=http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/tollhouse.htm|title=Toll House Cookie History – Invention of Toll House Cookies|accessdate=2009-07-30}}</ref><ref name="toll_house_cafe">{{cite web|url=http://tollhousecookies.net/toll_house_history|title=Nestlé Toll House Café - Toll House History|accessdate=2009-07-30}}</ref><ref name="inventor">{{cite web|url=http://www.women-inventors.com/Ruth-Wakefield.asp|title=Ruth Wakefield: Chocolate Chip Cookie Inventor|accessdate=2009-07-30}}</ref><ref name="mit"/> The new dessert soon became very popular. Ruth contacted Nestlé and they struck a deal: The company would print her recipe on the cover of all their semi-sweet chocolate bars, and she would get a lifetime supply of chocolate. Nestlé began marketing chocolate chips to be used especially for [[cookies]].<ref name="nestle"/> Ruth wrote a [[cookbook]], ''Toll House Tried and True Recipes'', that went through 39 printings starting in 1940.<ref name="mit">{{cite web|url=http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/wakefield.html|title=Inventor of the Week Archive: Chocolate Chip Cookie|accessdate=2009-08-01|publisher=[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]}}</ref> |
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Ruth died in 1977, and the Toll House Inn burned down from a fire that started in the kitchen on [[New Year's Eve]] 1984.<ref name="stack1984">Stack, James (January 6, 1985). A landmark burns. ''[[Boston Globe]]''</ref> The inn was not rebuilt. The site is marked with a historical marker, and that land is now home to a [[Wendy's]] restaurant and [[Walgreens]] pharmacy. Although there are many manufacturers of chocolate chips today, Nestlé still publishes the recipe on the back of each package of Toll House Morsels. |
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Revision as of 16:55, 6 December 2011
Toll House Inn of Whitman, Massachusetts, was established in 1930 by Kenneth and Ruth Graves Wakefield. Toll House chocolate chip cookies are named after the inn.