Chocolate Chips (1913)

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AROUND-THE-WORLD COOK BOOK:
THE CULINARY GLEANINGS OF A NAVAL OFFICER'S WIFE
by Mary Louis Barroll
Century Company, NY
360 pages
1913

   It would be nice to find Mrs. Norton's 1941 unpublished book of the recipes of 157 nations.  She was not, however, the first woman to publish a world cookbook.  This is perhaps the earliest of the genre.  Surprisingly, the most useful recipe to us is "chocolate chip cookies"!
   OED earliest "chocolate chip" is a 1940 "chocolate chip cookie" citation.

Pg. 266:

   _CHOCOLATE CHIPS_
   Chocolate,
   Molasses, 1 cup,
   Sugar, 2/3 cup,
   Butter, 1 heaping tablespoon,
   Vanilla extract.
   First mix a candy of molasses for the filling.  This should be made as follows: Boil together molasses, sugar, and butter until a little of it dropped into cold water is crisp, then add a flavoring of vanilla, and pour it out on buttered tins and when cool enough to handle, pull thin, and cut into small pieces.
   (Pg. 267--ed.)
   When these pieces have become perfectly cold, dip them into melted sweetened chocolate. also flavored with vanilla, and lay the pieces on waxed paper to dry.