A cookie (in Europe) or chocolate chip cookie (in Quebec) is a small round cookie, originally from the United States, made with chocolate chips.
The English word “cookie” comes from the Dutch word “koekje” (small cookie), introduced to the United States by the Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam. It is a generic term used in North America for all kinds of dry cookies. People use the word “cookie” in other English-speaking countries.
The word “cookie” generally refers In French to a specific type of round chocolate chip cookie, or sometimes other similar cookies.
In Quebec, the terms preferred by the Office québécois de la langue française are “chocolate chip cookie” and “cookie aux pépites de chocolat”.
History of the Chocolate Chip Cookie
Invention
American cooks Ruth Graves Wakefield and Sue Brides invented The cookie in 1938 . She invented the recipe while she owned the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts.
At that time, the Toll House Inn was a popular restaurant for its home-cooked food. It is often said, incorrectly, that the two cooks accidentally invented the cookie but instead created the chocolate cookie.
In reality, Wakefield claimed to have intentionally invented the cookie. She said, “We served a thin caramel nut cookie with ice cream. Everyone seemed to love it, but I was trying to give them something different. I ended up inventing the Toll House cookie. ” She added pieces cut from a Nestlé semi-sweet chocolate bar into a cookie.
Later in life
Wakefield’s cookbook, Toll House Tried and True Recipes, was first published in 1936 by Mr. Barrows & Company. The 1938 edition of this cookbook was the first to include the Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie recipe, which quickly became the favorite cookie of Americans.
During World War II, Massachusetts soldiers stationed overseas shared the cookies they received in their CARE packages. Soon, hundreds of soldiers began asking their families to send them Toll House cookies. Wakefield was soon inundated with requests from around the world for the recipe, and the national cookie craze began.
7,8 The demand for the cookies helped spread its popularity beyond the eastern side of the United States. The cookie recipe arrived in the United Kingdom in 1956, with Maryland cookies being one of the top-selling cookies in the UK.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Equipment
- Mixer
Ingredients
- 125 gr Butter
- ½ cup Granulated sugar
- 1 Egg
- 1 pack Vanilla powder
- ½ pack Baking soda
- 2-3 cup Flour
- 1 pack Chocolate chips
Instructions
- Keep the butter at room temperature and soften.
- Whisk half cup sugar and butter with the mixer for 3-4 minutes taking helpof your family.
- Add the egg and whisk again.
- Add dry ingredients to this mixture and knead.
- Then, add chocolate chips and knead again.
- Cut walnut-sized pieces and bake in anoven preheated to 180 degrees for 12-13 minutes.
Notes
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Sara
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Maysa
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