Today is Sunday May 15, 2011
National Chocolate Chip Day
Chocolate chip cookies, chocolate chip pancakes, chocolate chip muffins, the possibilities are endless for what to make with chocolate chips!
The original chocolate chip cookie was invented by Ruth Graves Wakefield in the 1930's at her Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts. Ruth was going to cook chocolate cookies for her guests, but she ran out of baker's chocolate. By substituting chopped up semi-sweet chocolate bits for the baker's chocolate in the recipe, Ruth discovered that the bits did not melt into the dough as baker's chocolate does.
These cookies became an immediate hit with her guests and have since become a favorite cookie throughout America and the rest of the world. Approximately 25 percent of the cookies baked in the United States today are chocolate chip cookies. Happy National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day!
To celebrate National Chocolate Chip Day, bake or cook something that calls for chocolate chips in the recipe or add them to your own recipe to create something chocolatey-chip delicious!
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On this day in History:
| 1862 - The U.S. Congress created the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 1926 - The New York Rangers were awarded a franchise by the National Hockey League (NHL). 1930 - Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess. 1941 - Joe DiMaggio began his historic major league baseball hitting streak of 56 games. 1964 - The Smothers Brothers, Dick and Tom, gave their first concert in Carnegie Hall in New York City. 1990 - Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" was sold for $82.5 million. The sale set a new world record. |
Quote of the Day:
"If you don’t get satisfaction from doing it on a small scale, you won’t get satisfaction doing it on a global scale. Nothing, multiplied by six billion, is still nothing."
--Peter McWilliams
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