Eggs were beaten with a little switch of twigs.īecause of the labor involved, women baked infrequently and shared their sweets with neighbors.
She snipped sugar from a hard 10-pound loaf and sifted flour through a silk cloth. To bake, she first had to milk the cow, skim the cream, and churn the butter. Making Drop-Do cookies was no simple matter for the Colonial goodwife. Then it emerged from old-fashioned beehive ovens and answered to the name of butter Drop-Do (or Dough). While the Toll House cookie as we know it is only sweet and 20, its lineage goes back to Colonial days. Filled with semisweet chocolate morsels and nuts, these delectable cookies have won first place in the affections of home bakers. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Toll House cookie. Toll House cookie history has Colonial roots (1961) He always did go for those crisp, brown cookies… Make up a batch of those golden-brown, crunch Toll House Cookies and send it to that soldier boy of yours. Now that Nestle’s semi-sweet chocolate is harder to get - because so much of it is going to the fighting forces in emergency and combat rations - put it to the best possible use.
His one weakness… Toll House cookies from home. World War II: Send your soldier some chocolate chip cookies (1943) This unusual offer is made to acquaint you with Nestle’s semi-sweet chocolate - delicious to eat, and delicious in those famous Toll House Cookies. Toll House cookies are as much fun to make as they are to serve.ĪLSO SEE: Toll House cake with vanilla and chocolate (1949) & Toll House Pie: Chocolate chip pie recipe (1986) Photo by bhofack2/Deposit Photos These cookies are sure to delight your bridge club and the family too, they’re new and different.Ĭrisp, tender, golden brown cookies, and when you bite into one - surprise! There’s a rich bit of semisweet chocolate and a taste of walnut in that bite, and the next and the next.
They’re “Toll House Cookies” because Ruth Wakefield of New England’s famous Toll House Inn originated them. The problem of what to give the kiddies coming home from school, or to serve the bridge club the next time it’s your turn to entertain, can be solved by a batch of these delicious cookies. The Courier-News (Bridgewater, New Jersey) October 17, 1939 See that request below, too! Toll House: Deliciously different chocolate cookies (1939) Note that this is before the chocolate had been made into chips, so home bakers had to cut chocolate bars into pieces to make them work in this recipe.īy 1943 - right in the middle of World War II - chocolate was in short supply… but the company still urged people stateside to use what little of that deliciousness that they had to make Toll House chocolate chip cookies to send off to the boys out on the front. Here is the original Toll House Cookie recipe that was syndicated to newspapers nationwide during ’39, along with an ad that ran at the time. The now ubiquitous chocolate chip cookie came to be back in 1938, and by 1939, those tasty little treats were already being called “famous.”
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