When it comes to homemade treats, chocolate-chip cookies are all-time favorites!
The first known chocolate-chip cookie was baked in the 1930s in the kitchen of Ruth Wakefield, owner of the Toll House restaurant in Massachusetts.
How did she come up with such a delectable combination?
According to one legend, Wakefield was stirring up a batch of cookie dough and, by lucky chance, a bar of chocolate fell from a shelf and broke, adding tasty chocolate morsels to the batter.
This story, however, is most likely apocryphal (see definition and hear pronunciation below).
In reality, she probably came up with the idea of mixing cookie dough and chocolate through her expertise as a celebrated baker.
Either way, her cookie creation was a real winner!
Cool word vocabulary question of the day: Have you heard any apocryphal stories about famous people, places or things?
Apocryphal: Of questionable authenticity, although widely circulated as being true.
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