Every day, people invent new things. Some (invent) work hard for years to create something new, but some of the best inventions happen by accident.
Can you imagine a world without chocolate chip cookies? Back in 1930, Ruth Wakefield and her husband opened a restaurant in Massachusetts. It (call) the Toll House Inn. Ruth greeted the guests when they arrived. She also worked the cook. The restaurant could hold 30 guests. Ruth often had to rush to feed them all on time.
One day, Ruth was mixing up some chocolate cookies in the kitchen. The recipe(配方) said to melt squares of baking chocolate. The next step was (pour) the melted chocolate into the pale cookie batter(面糊) and stir(搅拌).
You have to melt chocolate slowly or it will burn. Ruth was in hurry. She decided to break the chocolate squares into little chunks (厚块) . Then she (throw) the chunks into the batter. After all, the cookies had to be baked in a hot oven. She figured that the chocolate would just melt into the rest of the batter. she took the cookies out of the oven, Ruth groaned (叹息). She could still see big chunks of chocolate. She could never serve these to her guests. Then, Ruth tasted the cookies. were delicious. Her guests agreed.
Ruth began buying lots of chocolate and (cut) it up. Then she asked the candy makers if they could make the chocolate much (easy) to break into small pieces. She wanted to make more of these delicious cookies, and maybe other people would start baking them at home.
Thanks to Ruth Wakefield, today you can find "Toll House" cookies in every grocery store, but none of them tastes as good as homemade chocolate chip cookies, hot from the oven.