This is my favorite cookbook. It was my mom's and is copyright March 1968... (I had just barely cleared my first birthday!) It's pages are tattered, stained and sometimes ripped out of the book completely.
The recipes in this cookbook are timeless. Not so much for the fashions in the pictures! (Lovin' the June Cleaver-esque dress)
Here is the recipe for "Chocolate Chippers", otherwise known as Chocolate Chip Cookies. It is really the best recipe I have ever come across. And it calls for shortening (good old Crisco) and you MUST use it, no substitutions. I'm not sure what is in shortening and probably don't want to know, but I've tried to substitute butter in the past and the cookies just do not come out right. I am sure I have turned to this page in the cookbook hundreds of times over the years....
Mmmmm.... not only do I love the cookies, I really love the cookie dough! (But, I didn't eat any tonight, trying to have some willpower!)
But, maybe I could have just ONE....
What is your favorite chocolate chip recipe?
9 comments:
Your making my mouth water! My fave recipe I found in a Paula Deen magazine...and now I can't find it again. But the cookies were double chocolate chip, peaunut butter, and coconut. YUMMMM!
OHHH those look GOOD!! Love that cookbook!
I find it hard to believe you only ate one of those yummy cookies...
My favorite recipe is for Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies, off the back of the Butter Flavor Crisco tub. Yum. And you're right, you HAVE to use the crisco.
Yummy! I like the recipe that comes on the chocolate chip package.
I remember that cookbook, my Mom use to have one just like it when I was growing up, don't know what happened to it.
My fav cookie recipe is ANYTHING someone else bakes! My talents do not lie in cooking, Hee Hee!
My favorite chocolate chip cookie is actually an oatmeal cookie with chocolate chips and walnuts in it. Mmmmmm! Any good oatmeal cookie recipe will do. I may have to make some now that you've reminded me. BTW, have you ever tried chocolate chip banana bread? Heaven in a loaf.
Forgot to mention that my mom used to use that cookbook. I remember it well. But she gave me a Betty Crocker hard bound cookbook when I was 23 that I still have 35 years later - no covers, pages missing, cookie dough and butter stains and all - I still love it and use it. and it has the choc. chip cookie recipe I always use. : )
Oh my gosh! My Mom has that same cookbook and the chocolate chippers is my favourite cookie recipe! Every time we get together we still bake cookies together from that book. :-)
I am so loving that cookbook! Way cool...the memories that must be associated with it whenever you use it are priceless, I'm sure.
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