Ruth Graves Wakefield (June 17, 1903 - January 10, 1977) is an American chef, best known as the inventor of Cookie Toll House, the first chocolate chip cookie, which he made. He is also a graduate and educator, business owner, chef, and writer.
Wakefield grew up in Easton, Massachusetts, and graduated from Oliver Ames High School in 1920. Wakefield was educated at the Framingham State Normal School Department of Household Arts in 1924. There, he worked as a dietitian and lectured on food. In 1928, she and her husband Kenneth Donald Wakefield (1897-1997) had a son, Kenneth Donald Wakefield Jr. In 1930, she and her husband bought a tourist cabin (the Toll House Inn) in the town of Whitman, Massachusetts in Plymouth. Area. Located about midway between Boston and New Bedford, it is a place where passengers have historically paid tolls, changed horses and ate home-based food. When Wakefields opened their business, they named the Toll House Inn establishment. Ruth cooks and serves all the food
and soon gained local fame for a lobster dinner and dessert. The restaurant has many visitors, including Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy. The chocolate biscuits soon became very popular. He found a chocolate chip cake around 1938.
He added a sliver of beets from a semi-sweet brown bar NestlÃÆ'Â © into the cake. It is often incorrectly reported that the cake is an accident, and that Wakefield expects a melted chocolate piece to make a chocolate cake. In fact, Wakefield stated that he stumbled across a cookie. He said, "We have been serving thin butterscotch bean cake with ice cream Everyone seems to like it but I try to give them something different So I came with Toll House cake."
Wakefield wrote the best-selling cookbook, Toll House Tried and True Recipes, which printed 39 prints from 1930. The cookbook edition of 1938 was the first to include a chocolate cake recipe, "Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Cake."
During World War II, US soldiers from Massachusetts stationed abroad distributed the cookies they received in a home care package with soldiers from other parts of the US. Soon, hundreds of soldiers were writing at home asking their families to send them some Toll House cakes, and Wakefield was soon flooded with letters from around the world asking for his recipe. So start the national craze for chocolate chip cookies.
As the popularity of Cookie Toll House Chocolate Crunch increases, semi-sweet chocolate sales NestlÃÆ'Â © also soars. Andrew NestlÃÆ'Â © and Ruth Wakefield make business arrangements: Wakefield gave NestlÃÆ' Â © the right to use the cake recipe and the name Toll House for a dollar and NestlÃÆ'Â © chestnut supplies for life. NestlÃÆ'Â © started marketing chocolate chips for use primarily for cookies and printing recipes for Cookie Toll House on the package.
Wakefield died on January 10, 1977 after a long illness at Jordan Hospital in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
In 2018, the New York Times published late news of death for her.
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