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ORIGINAL TOLL HOUSE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES (1938)

Since I won't be home for the holidays this Christmas (we are going to Australia to spend a summery Christmas with my in-laws), I went home to Canada a little early for a quick trip - most importantly to meet my new, adorable niece! Surrounded by childhood favourites and nostalgia, I thought it would be a great idea to make a classic Tasting History treat with my mom: the Original Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies. This first ever chocolate chip cookie recipe, originally called Chocolate Crunch Cookies (a later newspaper typo created its now-common name), was created by Ruth Wakefield and her head pastry chef Sue Brides at The Toll House Inn in Whittman, MA in 1938. The restaurant was already quite popular among locals and food critics, and Ruth finally decided to share the recipe for these star cookies with the public. It was printed in newspapers, and the popularity of the chocolate chip cookie grew even further when Nestlé printed it on the back of their packaging. In the original recipe, Nestlé's chocolate is mentioned by name, and the growing popularity of the cookie recipe led to a 500% increase in profits for the company. Their chocolate bars originally had to be chopped up into 'pea-sized' pieces by hand until Nestlé began selling scored bars with the correct size, and eventually chocolate chips - created especially for making chocolate chip cookies. Interestingly enough, the original chocolate chip cookie recipe is very close to the one that is still on packages today. I have very fond memories of making chocolate chip cookies with my mother as I was growing up, and I thought, what better way to compare the two recipes than to also make this original chocolate chip cookie recipe with her! See Max’s video on how to make this dish here or see the ingredients and process at the end of this post, sourced from his website.

My experience making it:

Finally in my natural element in Canada, with easier to find ingredients that I recognized and could more predictably bake with, I was able to follow the recipe exactly. The one major change I made was to omit the chopped nuts completely, mostly because I'm not a fan of nuts in baked goods.

Because this recipe requires an overnight element, my mom and I began preparing the cookie dough the day before we wanted to bake and eat them. My mom began by beating the eggs, then creaming the butter with a hand mixer while I portioned out the other ingredients. She added in the sugars, eggs, baking soda dissolved in water, and vanilla and mixed them until combined. I then slowly sprinkled in the flour and salt mixture into the mixing bowl while she mixed, until that, too, was combined. I was worried the dough was looking a little too dry and dense, but my mom assured me it still looked right - I totally trust her baking instincts! We then folded the chocolate chips into the dough with a spatula, then covered it with Saran wrap and let it sit in the fridge overnight. The next evening, we preheated the oven, took our dough out (which had really hardened up!), and began portioning it out into little balls of dough. My mom had to use a fork and a bit of force to portion it, since it was so cold and solid! We used a weigh scale to determine the 14 oz. size of ball, but honestly, we did end up going up to 20 oz. or so at some points - it would have taken a long time to weigh every ball. On a lined baking sheet, we fit about 14 balls of dough, spaced about 2 inches apart. After pressing down on each just a little bit, we tossed the first batch in the oven. It smelled so good, and the bits of raw cookie dough I snuck while waiting for the cookies to bake were heavenly! When we took them out, we transferred them onto cooling racks. I think we baked about 5 trays of cookies overall, leaving us with an absolute plethora of chocolate chip cookies by the end! They looked small, but classic - almost like the chocolate chip cookies you can buy in a store. Very photogenic, in my opinion.

My experience tasting it:

Of course, our patience got the best of us, and we did not wait for the cookies to cool before trying them. No regrets! They tasted wonderful - crisp on the bottom and edges, but soft and a little melty in the middle. Really ideal, this kind of cookie could please everyone. My mom likes her cookies on the crispier side, and I like mine on the soft and gooey side, yet we both were very happy with how this recipe turned out. So was my dad, sister, my brother-in-law, and my aunt! In fact, these cookies didn't taste much different from my mom's chocolate chip cookie recipe (as I remembered it). She claims she also got her recipe from a newspaper, so it may have also had the same origin as this one. The flavour of these cookies was sweet, but balanced by the salt and rich brown sugar. They were so tasty, I think this could even become my main chocolate chip cookie recipe, although I will probably make each cookie even bigger in order to get a large volume of soft gooeyness. And I will definitely halve the recipe! 100 cookies or so, as tasty as they are, is an awful lot to get through and would definitely become noticeable on the waist. Otherwise, I agree with Max that there is a reason this recipe has lasted so many decades in its nearly-original form - it really is a crowd-pleaser. I was happy I was able to take some cookies with me back to Germany so I can share some with my husband! If you end up making this dish, if you liked it, or if you changed anything from the original recipe, do let me know!

Original Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies original recipe (1938)

Sourced from Ruth Wakefield’s Toll House Tried and True Recipes by Ruth Wakefield (1938).

Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookies Cream 1 cup butter, add 3/4 cup brown sugar, 3/4 cup granulated sugar, and 2 eggs beaten whole. Dissolve 1 tsp soda in 1 tsp hot water, and mix alternately with 2 1/4 cups flour sifted with 1 tsp salt. Lastly add 1 cup chopped nuts and 2 bars (7 oz.) Nestle’s yellow label chocolate, semi-sweet, which has been cut in pieces the size of a pea. Flavor with 1 tsp. vanilla and drop half teaspoons on a greased cookie sheet. Bake 10 to 12 minutes in 375° oven. Makes 100 cookies. 

Modern Recipe

Based on the recipe from Ruth Wakefield’s Toll House Tried and True Recipes by Ruth Wakefield (1938) and Max Miller’s version in his Tasting History video.

Ingredients:

1 cup butter

3/4 cup brown sugar

3/4 cup granulated sugar

2 beaten eggs

1 tsp baking soda, dissolved in 1 tsp hot water

1 tsp vanilla

2 1/4 cups flour

1 tsp salt

1 cup chopped nuts

14 oz. chocolate chips

Method:

Cream the butter until smooth. Mix in the brown sugar, granulated sugar, eggs, baking soda water, and vanilla until combined.

Whisk together the flour and salt. Add this to the butter mixture and mix until just combined.

Stir in the nuts and chocolate chips just until evenly distributed.

Cover and chill the dough overnight.

Preheat the oven to 375°F (190° C).

Scoop dough into balls, about 14 grams each. A half a teaspoon is way too small of a measurement, so I found weighing the dough to be the best way. Place them on lined baking sheets, leaving about 2 inches between each cookie. Press the cookie dough down a bit.

Bake for about 8 minutes, or until golden brown.

Take them out of the oven and let them cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

Serve them forth!

[plush0fairy]

Wisconsin-ae-Miku

Have to give credit to @thedragonitus for that Culver's cup!

[money-and-dandellions]

I am totally fine

...Lester, who saw that Meg was like him, while observing her and her Beast...

...(and who didn't admit to himself, that he had a Beast too)...

...Meg who was so scared and worried out of her mind that Lester is in dander and is going to die in the cave of Trophonius that she kept trying to catch his attention and started singing in order to guarantee his safety...

...Lester, who selflessly agreed to give his life only if Meg is going to live; and then proceeded to put himself under risk of being suffocated...

...Meg who was helplessly watching how [her] dummy stabbed himself in the heart and fell limb (I am sure that for a second she was not sure if it was the end or not)...

...Lester who watched people he knew only for a few hours were killed for his sake, clearly not understanding why they would sacrifice themselves for him ("and, for some reason, Jason Grace decided that I would not die today too")...

...Meg, who was watching how her best friend was dying from poison; she didn't want him to die, she cried because she didn't want him to die...

...Lester who helped her to kill her Beast Nero... (I am sure that he is very proud of this achievement of hers)

...Lester, who promised her to come back, no matter what, because the sun always comes back...

Apollo, who did.

They, who became each other's family, because their families are shit (not all of the people/gods).

[rantingisalifestyle]

I feel like Ms. Choccy Muffin and Ms. Pommel Horse need to meet up and discuss how the f*ck their boyfriends became the heart and soul of the 2024 olympics

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[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Limp Bizkit – My Way

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Melissa Coppel Chocolates

I love chocolates. These days, there are a lot of chocolate options. I adore the uniqueness, flavor, color, and aroma that every chocolatier imparts.

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.” ― Charles M. Schulz

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Cherry Chocolate Lava Delight ❤️️🍫✨

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CHOCOLATE BABIES (1996) dir. Stephen Winter Welcome to the front lines of AIDS activism, where the latest enemy raids are being run by a band of unlikely warriors. An underground group of queer, self-described “raging, atheist, meat-eating, HIV-positive, colored terrorists” make headlines as they expose and fight back against homophobic, conservative and corrupt politicians on the streets of New York City. (link in title)

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M&M's Christmas advertisement (1985).

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When you literally don’t understand how boycotts actually work.

They are still getting the money, regardless. They don’t care what you do with it.

[doppopelganger]

Hacked a golden ticket that’s how I won, you gotta break rules to get the job done ~

Tried doing a chibi artstyle

[cienie-isengardu]

Shadow warriors need love too.

[magazynkulinarny]

Szybkie brownie

Moje ulubione brownie! Robiłam je już naście razy, obdarowując nim bliższych i dalszych znajomych, nieznajomych, o sobie nie zapominając.

Szybkie, ciężkie i baaardzo czekoladowe. Z charakterystyczną popękaną błyszczącą skórką na wierzchu i wilgotnym, lepkim wnętrzem.

Idealne ciasto dla tych, którzy dopiero raczkują w kuchni i boją się coś sknocić. Odwagi! Ten wypiek udaje się każdemu. Największą sztuką jest uchwycenie momentu, w którym trzeba je wyjąć z piekarnika.

Czy zadawaliście sobie kiedyś pytanie skąd na powierzchni brownie ta lśniąca skorupka? Amerykański Youtuber zajmujący się tematyką jedzenia od strony naukowej, a wcześniej wykładowca i dziennikarz Adam Ragusea, owszem. Przeprowadził serię eksperymentów i wysnuł wniosek, że wpływ na to ma duża lepkość ciasta, niski poziom wilgotności i dobrze rozpuszczony cukier.

Jeśli nie macie duszy naukowca i nie interesuje Was rozbieranie jedzenia na czynniki pierwsze, jak Ragusea, tylko cieszycie się nim jak dzieci, bo daje przyjemność, pocieszenie i siłę do życia, to nie myślcie zbyt wiele, tylko zakasujcie rękawy i bierzcie się do roboty!

Składniki:

240 g masła 2 łyżki oleju roślinnego 1 1/4 szklanki (260 g) cukru szklanka (200 g) jasnego brązowego cukru 4 duże jaja łyżka ekstraktu waniliowego 3/4 łyżeczki soli szklanka (130 g) mąki uniwersalnej szklanka (100 g) gorzkiego kakao w proszku 200 g gorzkiej czekolady garść orzechów włoskich i laskowych (lub innych)

Wykonanie:

Rozgrzać piekarnik do 175°C. Jaja wyjąć z lodówki, aby były w temperaturze pokojowej. Czekoladę posiekać dużym nożem na kawałeczki.

Lekko nasmarować olejem lub masłem małą formę do pieczenia i wyłożyć ją pergaminem.

W średniej wielkości misce połączyć roztopione masło, olej i cukier. Wymieszać. Dodać jajka, ekstrakt waniliowy i ubijać lub zmiksować, aż kolor stanie się wyraźnie jaśniejszy (ok. minutę).

Do drugiej miski przesiać mąkę, kakao, sól i wymieszać. Następnie połączyć suche składniki z mokrymi. Nie mieszać długo i intensywnie, tylko do momentu scalenia się składników, w przeciwnym razie utracimy efekt kleistości. Dodać czekoladę i znów wymieszać. Ciasto wlać do przygotowanej formy i wyrównać wierzch.

Piec 25-30 minut, jeśli chcemy uzyskać konsystencję ciągnącej krówki (po wbiciu patyczka powinien wyjść brudny) lub 35-40 minut, jeśli lubimy środek wilgotny, ale niezbyt luźny (patyczek po wyjęciu może być odrobinę zabrudzony).

Warto mieć na uwadze, że brownie będzie jeszcze dochodzić po wyjęciu z piekarnika.