Subject: RECIPE: Traditinal chocolate-chip cookies
From: mike@pixar (Mike Hawley)
Date: 11 Apr 86 05:31:03 GMT
Newsgroups: mod.recipes

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.RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE CHOC-CHIP-4 D "12 Jan 85" 1986
.RZ "CHOCOLATE-CHIP COOKIES" "Cookies like what Mom should have made"
There is no substitute for chocolate-chip cookies,
warm out of the oven, washed down with cold milk.
This is Mom's recipe, and Mom's Mom's recipe.
This is also \fINestl\z\(aae's\fP ``Toll House'' recipe,
and the \fIJoy of Cooking\fR ``Chocolate-Chip Drop Cookies'' recipe,
etc, which is no coincidence.  This is the default recipe.
This is not Mrs. Field's recipe.  If you want Mrs. Field's, use a 
shopping mall; if you want simple, elegant, timeless chocolate-chip cookies,
use this recipe.
.IH  "12 big cookies"
.IG "1 cup+2 Tbsp" "flour" "115 g"
.IG "\(12 tsp" "salt" "2 ml"
.IG "\(12 tsp" "baking soda" "2.5 ml"
.IG "\(12 cup" "butter, softened" "100 g"
(1 stick)
.IG "6 Tbsp" "white sugar" "60 g"
.IG "6 Tbsp" "brown sugar" "60 g"
.IG "\(12 tsp" "vanilla extract" "2.5 ml"
.IG "1" "large egg"
.IG "6 oz" "Nestle's chocolate chips" "175 g"
(1 package).
.PH
.SK 1
Preheat oven to
.TE 375 190 .
Sift flour, salt, baking soda together in a small bowl.
.SK 2
In another bowl, mix butter with two sugars, vanilla and egg until smooth.
gradually mix dry stuff in with butter mixture. Mix in chocolate chips.
.SK 3
Put blobs of dough on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at
.TE 375 190
for 8\-10
minutes.
.NX
\fIImportant:\fR double all proportions above (always make 2\(mu as much of
these as the recipe calls for).
Let's face it: small is beautiful, but big cookies are \fIbetter\fR than
small ones. All the printed recipes call for teeny cookies, dropped by
teaspoonsful onto cookie sheets (yield 50).
My ``blobs of dough'' are golf-ball sized,
which makes healthy 3\-4 inch cookies.
.PP
I invariably make these on the spur of the moment,
and so usually nuke the butter in a microwave to soften it up.
I also occasionally cheat and soften up the butter/sugar mixture a tad
in the oven.
.PP
Try adding walnuts, macadamias, white chocolate, orange peel,
butterscotch chips, or mint\(emall these are welcome variations.
But keep it simple.
.SH RATING
.I Difficulty:
easy to moderate.
.I Time:
20 minutes.
.I Precision:
measure the ingredients.
.WR
Mike Hawley, \fIucbvax!dagobah!mike\fR
The Droid Works, San Rafael, California