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In Baking as Biography, Diane Tye goes through her mother’s recipe box as a means to better understand the older woman’s life, to examine mid-20th-century Maritime food and domestic culture, and to consider connections between food and nostalgia. Tye, an associate professor at Newfoundland’s Memorial University, situates her book at the crossroads of folklore and women’s studies, and the resulting narrative is fascinating.
Tye reads between the lines of her late mother’s recipes to show how baking defined her as a minister’s wife and mother. Baking, Tye suggests, had subversive implications: it was a form of self-expression that brought women together socially and enabled them to record their histories in the form of recipe books. As convenience foods came into fashion, women ingeniously repurposed things such as graham crackers and Jell-O in ways their male creators had never envisioned.
The recipes Tye uncovers reflect changes in 20th-century food culture. For example, her mother’s biscuits (a staple of Maritime meals) became lighter and sweeter over time. Tye connects this change to the falling price of white sugar after the turn of the century, and a move away from foods sweetened by the more traditional molasses, which came to be viewed as a low-class ingredient. By contrast, as “exotic” items such as orange and coconut became more widely available, they began to be used in baking as an assertion of middle-class status. Chocolate-chip cookies were invented in the 1930s, and Tye’s mother’s were famous in her neighbourhood by the 1970s. Her recipe, however, had unremarkable origins: the back of a package of Nestlé chocolate chips.
Tye’s original notion of recipes being passed down through generations is abandoned as the author comes to understand that technology and fashion changed so rapidly during the 20th century that recipes were more often acquired via women’s magazines or exchanged between friends.
Baking as Biography deconstructs the myths of mid-20th-century housewifery right from its first pages, beginning with Tye’s observation that her mother didn’t even like to bake. How and why, in spite of this, she turned out baked goods so prolifically for nearly 40 years reveals surprising and illuminating details about her life, and about the circumstances of her contemporaries
Chocolate chip cookies are a favorite treat for people of all ages, but without the famous woman inventor Ruth Wakefield, the world might never have tasted those sweet delights. Born in 1905, Wakefield grew up to be a dietician and food lecturer after graduating from the Framingham State Normal School Department of Household Arts in 1924. Along with her husband Kenneth, she bought a tourist lodge named the Toll House Inn, where she prepared the recipes for meals that were served to guests.
In 1930, Wakefield was mixing a batch of cookies for her roadside inn guests when she discovered that she was out of baker's chocolate. She substituted broken pieces of Nestle's semi-sweet chocolate, expecting it to melt and absorb into the dough to create chocolate cookies. That didn't happen, but the surprising result helped to make Ruth Wakefield one of the 20th century's most famous women inventors. When she removed the pan from the oven, Wakefield realized that she had accidentally invented "chocolate chip cookies."
At the time, she called her creations "Toll House Crunch Cookies." They became extremely popular locally, and the recipe was soon published in a Boston newspaper. As the popularity of the Toll House Crunch Cookie increased, the sales of Nestle's semi-sweet chocolate bars also spiked. Andrew Nestle and Ruth Wakefield decided to come up with an agreement. Nestle would print the Toll House Cookie recipe on its package, and Wakefield would be given a lifetime supply of Nestle chocolate. Due to this unexpected discovery by a famous woman inventor, the chocolate chip cookie became the most popular variety of cookie in America, a distinction it still holds to this day.
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