Re:The Dirty Secret of ‘Secret Family Recipes’
by Ascendency on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @01:29AM
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Oddly enough, the toll house recipe was our secret family recipe. It was traded for a lifetime supply of chocolate (and the publicity of inventing a beloved staple).
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Re:The Dirty Secret of ‘Secret Family Recipes’
by dunstad on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @02:16AM
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How interesting. Any way to verify this tale?
Re:The Dirty Secret of ‘Secret Family Recipes’
by draugadrotten on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @02:32AM
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Assuming poster is a relative of Ruth Graves Wakefield..his user profile seems to match this story.
"On March 20, 1939, Wakefield gave Nestlé the right to use her cookie recipe and the Toll House name. In a bargain that rivals Peter Minuit’s purchase of Manhattan, the price was a dollar—a dollar that Wakefield later said she never received (though she was reportedly given free chocolate for life and was also paid by Nestlé for work as a consultant)."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/sweet-morsels...