Ruth Wakefield was born in 1905. Ruth graduated from the Framingham State Normal School Department of Household Arts in 1924.
     Ruth work as a dietician and food lecturer at the Toll House Inn.  She was married to Kenneth Wakefield.
      Ruth invented the Toll House Cookie in 1930 in Whitefield, Massachusetts. The cookie was an accident. She ran out of baker’s chocolate so she broke up some pieces of a Nestles chocolate bar.  She thought it would melt but it stayed in a chip like form.

 Her recipe was this:
 2 ¼ cups of flour
 1 teaspoon of baking soda
 1 tsp. of salt
 1 cup of butter
 ¾ cup of white sugar
 ¾ cup of brown sugar
 1 teaspoon of vanilla
 2 eggs
 2 cups of Nestle sweet chocolate chips
1 cup of chopped nuts 

      Ruth did not have any help inventing the chocolate chip cookie. The cookie made Ruth famous. Ruth’s cookie was very popular. The Nestles Company liked her idea.  They package ready to use chocolate chips.
     The chocolate chip cookie is the most popular cookie in America.
      Ruth died in 1977.
 

Works Cited

”The History of the Chocolate Chip Cookie: Ruth Wakefield.” 
      http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/chocolatechipcookies.htm.  2/24/04.

“Chocolate Chip Cookies.” EBSCO Host. 2/24/04.