Chocolate Chip cookies.?!
Chocolate Chip cookies.?
I have to do a report on chocolate chip cookies and was wondering if anyone had any history or fun fact they could share with me
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Fact: You have probably heard for years how dangerous it is to eat raw cookie dough because of the raw eggs in it. However, did you know that the chance of getting sick (salmonella poisoning) from eating raw eggs is 1 in 10,000?
Personal story: The first time my sister made chocolate chip cookies she accidentally put an entire cup of salt in, instead of one teaspoon.
Tip: Baking powder should not be used as a substitute for baking soda. They cause different chemical reactions.
I wanted to make chocolate chip chocolate cookies but didn't have a receipie or the know how. So I took a milk chocolate candy bar and melted it in my cookie dough and yuck, too too too sweet, it was gross and runny. I had to throw out the whole batch.
The original chocolate chip cookie, the Toll House Cookie, was invented by Ruth Graves Wakefield in the 1930s. Ruth and her husband Kenneth owned the Toll House Inn, near Whitman, Massachusetts. Ruth cooked for her guests, and one day had to substitute semi-sweet chocolate for baker's chocolate in a cookie recipe. She chopped the chocolate in bits, but when she took the cookies from the oven, the semi-sweet chocolate had not melted into the dough as the baker's chocolate had. These cookies with chocolate 'chips' became an immediate hit with her guests.
The official state cookie of Massachusetts is the chocolate chip cookie, invented in 1930 at the Toll House Restaurant.
On February 7, 2001, the Chocolate Chip Cookie was declared the official cookie of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.