Posted on 05/15/2024 7:47:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
NATIONAL CHOCOLATE CHIP DAY
On May 15th, we recognize a morsel of a thing on National Chocolate Chip Day!
#ChocolateChipDay
Have you ever wondered how a single ingredient would change a recipe? If it weren't for one curious baker, it would be hard to imagine where we would be without the invention of chocolate chips.
In 1937, Ruth Graves Wakefield of Whitman Massachusetts must have been curious about what a little bit of chocolate would add to her cookies. While working at the Toll House Inn, she added cut-up chunks of a semi-sweet Nestle chocolate bar to a cookie recipe. The cookies were a huge success and in 1939 Wakefield signed an agreement with Nestle to add her recipe to the chocolate bar’s packaging. In exchange for the recipe, Wakefield received a lifetime supply of chocolate. The Nestle brand Toll House cookies were named for the Inn.
Nestle initially included a small chopping tool with the chocolate bars, too. Starting in 1941, Nestle and other competitors started selling the chocolate in chip or morsel form. For the first time, bakers began making chocolate chip cookies without chopping up the chocolate bar first.
Chocolate chips originally came in semi-sweet. Later, chocolate producers began offering bittersweet, semi-sweet, mint, white chocolate, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and white and dark swirled. Today, chips also come in a variety of other flavors that bakers and candy makers use creatively in their kitchens.
While cookies may be the first treat to come to mind, imagination is really the only thing limiting how chocolate chips can be used in baking and candy making. Even savory dishes feature chocolate chips in a variety of ways, too. Had Ruth Graves Wakefield never wondered what a few chopped up chunks of chocolate would be like in her baking, we wouldn't even have chocolate chip cookies.
HOW TO OBSERVE CHOCOLATE CHIP DAY
Whether you bake up chocolate chip cookies or melt them down and begin dipping, be sure to celebrate! Make sweet treats to share or experiment with a new recipe. Dive into Grandma's recipe box and try an old favorite, too! Be sure to share the bests ones, of course. It's the best way to #CelebrateEveryDay! Use #ChocolateChipDay to post on social media.
NATIONAL CHOCOLATE CHIP DAY HISTORY
Within our research, National Day Calendar continues seeking the origins of this chocolately holiday.
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May 15th Celebrated History
1923
Dr. Joseph Lawrence and Jordan Lambert register the disinfectant called Listerine. Inspiration for the name came from the English surgeon Joseph Lister who touted the importance of antiseptic protocols including handwashing before surgery.
1942
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs legislation creating the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps. Oveta Culp Hobby was named as the organization's first director. The name would later be shortened to Women's Army Corps. In early 1941, Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts sponsored the original bill creating the WAAC so that women volunteers would have support and benefits for their service. While the bill didn't initially obtain support, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Congress reconsidered. The organization was created as a joint operation of the Army.
1963
Astronaut Gordon Cooper becomes the first American to spend more than a single day in space. During the final mission of Project Mercury, Cooper completed 22 orbits of the Earth and his entire flight spanned 34 hours, 19 minutes, 49 seconds.
May 15th Celebrated Birthdays
L. Frank Baum - 1856
The American writer is the author of a series of children's books featuring a place called Oz. The 1939 film The Wizard of Oz was based on Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It starred Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Margaret Hamilton, and Frank Morgan.
Williamina P. Fleming - 1857
The American astronomer is best known for discovering the Horsehead Nebula in the constellation Orion.
Pierre Curie - 1859
In 1903, the French physicist, along with French physicists Marie Curie and Henri Becquerel received the Nobel Prize in Physics "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity."
Hickory Starr - 1915
A descendent of Sequoyah, Hickory Starr served as the Chief of the Nighthawk Keetoowah Society founded by his grandfather, Redbird Smith.
Madeleine Albright - 1937
In 1997, Madeleine Albright became the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State. President Bill Clinton named Albright to the position, and she served until 2001.
A Day without Chocolate is a really bad day!................
BTW, no kid ever, ever asked for chocolate "morsal" cookies.
Chocolate Glazed Chocolate Chip Cheesecake in Chocolate Cookie Crust
Ing 2-3 oz pkgs cream cheese, softened 14 oz can Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk 1 large egg 1 teaspoon vanilla 6 oz. pkg mini chocolate chips 1 teaspoon Flour 8-9-inch chocolate cookie crust or prepared chocolate graham cracker crust Chocolate curls*
CHOCOLATE GLAZE: 1/2 cup mini-chocolate chips 1/4 cup heavy cream
Directions HEAT oven to 350 degrees F. BEAT cream cheese in medium bowl with electric mixer until fluffy; gradually beat in sweetened condensed milk until smooth. Add egg and vanilla; mix well. TOSS chocolate chips with flour; stir into cream cheese mixture. Pour into crust. Bake 35 minutes or until center springs back when lightly touched. Cool and top with Chocolate Glaze and chocolate curls (optional). Serve chilled.
CHOCOLATE GLAZE: MELT chocolate chips/cream in pan; cook/stir til thickened and smooth. Immediately spread over cheesecake.
Tips--To prevent chocolate chips from floating down to bottom of pie, remove cheesecake from oven after 5 to 10 minutes, sprinkle chocolate chips over pie; continue to bake for remaining baking time. (Be careful when handling cheesecake, pie pan will be very hot.) *To make chocolate shavings, start with a good quality chocolate in block form. Using vegetable or potato peeler, hold chocolate with paper towel; pass vegetable peeler over narrowest side of chocolate block. The chocolate will curl up like wood shavings. Store in covered container in refrigerator until needed.
Can’t argue with that. ;^)
Eating chocolate chips is racess.
And fattening......................
And delicious!
Peanut Butter Ice Cream / 10 servings
You don't need an ice cream maker for this rich, creamy no-churn Ice Cream!
Ing--2 c h/cream, tbs vanilla, 14 oz can sweet/cond/milk, 1 ½ cups creamy p/b, divided
Instructions---first make peanut butter chunks: measure 1/2 cup p/b. Drop 48-1/2 tsp dots onto parchmented b/sheet. Freezer about 45-60 min.
Spatula smooth sweet/cond/milk and rest cup creamy peanut butter. Set aside. Mixer/whip cream and vanilla to stiff peaks. Add condensed milk / peanut butter mixture, beating on low to combine. Fold in the frozen peanut butter chunks. Transfer to loaf pan, 8" cake pan, or similar. Saran or lid and freeze 6-24 hours, overnight is preferred. Serve sprinkled with chocolate chips.
Notes Store in the freezer up to 2 weeks. Let sit on the counter 10 min before scooping.
Vary---skip the peanut butter chunks and add a slice of Butterfinger Cake as a mix-in. Fold in mini Reese’s pieces, chopped peanut butter cups, chopped Butterfinger bars. Freeze 1/2 teaspoon portions of jam instead of peanut butter chunks for PB&J ice cream. Fold in chp Peanut Butter Cookies or Nutter Butters. Add a swirl of chocolate sauce.
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