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Article: Let the chips fall ... into a good dessert // Chocolate chips enhance many a sweet treat. Local culinary students offer new ways to use those plain morsels of semisweet goodness - just in time for the holidays. [Corrected 12/13/02]
- Article from:
- Sunday News Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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CopyrightCopyright 2002 Sunday News Lancaster, PA. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Seldom does a recipe ingredient stir up such groans of pleasure as
those caused by chocolate chips.
For sweet success, bakers for more than a half-century have come
to rely on those little bits of chocolate variously dubbed as chips,
morsels and drops.
Chocolate chips, however, were an accident -- one very delicious
accident made by the owner of a country inn in 1930.
Many choco-holics are familiar with the story. Ruth Wakefield, who
owned an inn and restaurant located at the site of a former toll
house in Massachusetts, was experimenting with a colonial butter
cookie recipe. She chopped up a bar of semisweet chocolate and
stirred the chunks into the cookie dough, assuming the chocolate ...