Birth year

[richenda]

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[richenda]

Oh dear - well, your arrival was a beam of light in the darkness, wasn't it?

The chocolate chip cookie is invented

[saare_snowqueen]

addendum: It was 'invented' accidentally in a restaurant on the Old Post Road on the way to Cape Cod, called The Toll House. Making that accident the singular claim to fame of one of the dullest 3 square miles of humanity in the history of the world. I grew up there and had my wedding reception there. The beautiful old colonial building has since been modernized and then demolished.

Re: The chocolate chip cookie is invented

[richenda]

That's very interesting - I didn't even know about them until about 20 years ago. I love a hazelnut and choc chip buttery version that I sometimes buy at Morrisons

[alliekiwi]

Interesting about the chocolate chip biscuits - I'd have thought they were invented way before that. I make my grandmother's recipe for chocolate chip biscuits which have condensed milk in and they are divine.

I wonder what interesting things happened in 1933 in the UK as that list is very US-centric.

Allie
taking a break from making plum jam

[richenda]

I suppose that's why I remember them as a novelty and in the shops - there isn't, as far as I know, a UK tradition of them, but people do make them at home now. There wojuld have been the rationing problem until 1953.