âAt that moment it was new and understandably rattling to him,â Condon says.
Created as an accompaniment to ice cream, the chocolate-chip cookie quickly became so celebrated that Marjorie Husted (a.k.a. Betty Crocker) featured it on her radio program. On March 20, 1939, Wakefield gave Nestle nestlÃ© the right to use her cookie recipe and The Toll house. name
The story is charming but dubious. Mrs Wakefield had worked as a cook, dietician, and restauranteur, had prepared chocolatey recipes thousands of times, and certainly would have known that chocolate chips dropped into batter would not dissipate and simply become chocolate cookies.