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 new items that they introduced were called âbiscuits,â though they were the forerunner of what we now consider to be sponge cake. 1615 â Gervase Markham (1568-1637), English poet and author, recorded the earliest sponge cake recipe in English in 1615.