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Article: Quest for the ultimate chocolate chip cookie warms up in winter.(Originated from Providence Journal-Bulletin)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- January 29, 1996
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The smell of cookies in the oven is especially tantalizing if you've been out in the cold. When I bake, I sometimes step outside for a few minutes just so I can come back and get the full impact of the aroma.
If you bake something with chocolate, you can practically taste the warm, gooey chocolate chips before you take a bite.
Probably the best-loved cookies are Toll House, originated before World War II by the late Ruth Wakefield when she operated the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Mass. She chopped chocolate by hand then, because chocolate chips weren't invented until Toll House cookies become popular.
The Nestle company now owns her recipe. Their test ...