Legend Of Recipes: Chocolate Chip Cookies And The Toll House Inn

One of America's most beloved recipes, chocolate chip cookies were first created at the Toll House Inn in 1937. In fact, the chocolate chip cookies history begins with an accident in the kitchen of an old toll house.

Built in 1709, the old toll house – halfway between Boston and Bedford, Massachusetts – was never just a place to pay your toll and change horses. It also provided hearty home-cooked meals and a night of rest and recuperation for weary travelers. It would also come to provide the most popular of all chocolate chip cookies recipes.

In 1930, the Toll House Inn was established by Ken and Ruth Wakefield, who decided from day one to uphold the toll houses long-standing traditions. Ruth cooked all the inns meals and soon her delicious desserts became a famous treat in Massachusetts.

It was her chocolate chip cookies that became the most famous, and placed the Toll House Inn on the pages of chocolate chip cookies history.

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