On the myth of the creation of chocolate chips

Here's a good little article from The Atlantic about the creation of chocolate chips.  At the bottom of the article is the recipe that was used for the first chocolate chip cookies, back in 1938.  Enjoy.

Candy - Chocolate Creams

I've made candy twice before.  My father used to make English toffee just about every winter around Christmas.  He'd make a big batch where he lived in Indiana, and we would eat half of it on the road between there and Perham, MN, where my grandparents lived.  The rest wouldn't last very long once we arrived.  Ohgoditwasgood.  I have made it twice.  The first time, my roommate rescued the recipe (good thing too, since I was bringing it to my future in-laws for Christmas), since I had not heated the toffee enough.  The second time, I nailed it.  Did I mention that this toffee is good?  My sweet tooth probably caused me to eat 75% of that batch of toffee.  It wasn't my fault at all; my teeth made me do it, I swear.

So I was excited to get to the candy section of the cook book.  Whether the recipe I chose turned out or not, it would, at the very least, be sweet.  Oh, and chocolate.  How can a person not like working with chocolate.  Who knows, perhaps this could lead to something greater.

Who wouldn't want a chocolate river and pleasure boat?  I'd be singing Pure Imagination non-stop.

Salads - Fruit Salad

Poetry time!

A gay and crispy salad
Is such a tempting way
To give a fussy family
Green leafies every day.

Leafies!  Everybody loves leafies!  Granted, having two little boys in the house promotes silly language like this.  This happy little poem at the beginning of the Salads section only serves to throw you off your guard for the horrors that lie within.  After looking through the section, Sarah puts it this way, "Looking through the ingredients, everything looks fine and then comes something horrible.  Why would you put that in there?!"

For example, there is a recipe for Black Cherry Salad.  Sounds good, right?  Everybody loves cherries.  Here are the ingredients:  can of pitted bing cherries, lemon juice, orange gelatine, [then here's where things start to go down hill], chopped pecan meats, [and then *cringe*], stuffed olives.

But then there is the truly scary.  Here are the ingredients for Shrimp Salad:  chopped shrimp, chopped celery, stuffed olives, chopped onion, nuts, green pepper, mayonnaise, hard-cooked eggs, cooked macaroni, salt, and pepper.  RUN AWAY!  DON'T TURN BACK!  If that salad starts chasing us down the road, I'm tripping you so it gets you first.

AAAAAAAAH!

Fortunately for us, there was a more or less ok-looking salad on the first page of the Salads section.  We may live to see another day.  I'll be sure to keep an eye on the salad to make sure that it doesn't do anything suspicious.  Here's what we've got.

The dressing recipes are too frightening to display.