Olde’ Time Chocolate Chip Cookies
If you
want to know how to make homemade chocolate chip cookies from scratch that are
easy to make and very delicious, you have come to the right place. Once you
know how to make these chocolate chip cookies, you will find yourself making
them time and time again.
My
Olde’ time Chocolate Chip cookies from Americans, to the basic masses, the
artisanal purists, the avant-garde connoisseurs and everyone else around the
world love. People just can't get enough of them. If they have one, they have
to have another one and another and so forth!
What I really
know I learned about from my Grandma. My Grandma Ward was a modest woman, her
white hair pinned in a bun and her dress buttoned at the collarbone. She spoke
good English and food was how she communicated her love. We gathered in her
kitchen in waves after each success Sunday school let out. The cacophony of
voices of aunts, uncles and cousins along with the aroma of food, made it a
feast before we had taken one bite.
Grandma fed everyone.
There were plates of savory palette (breaded fingers of ground meat and
potatoes. Hot slices of chewy focaccia, crisp triangles of breaded veal, stuffed
hard boiled eggs, and in the fall she would offer apples from her trees sun dried in
egg cartons on the back porch.
We had pesto before
it became fashionable and ubiquitous. Family lore had it that Great depression the
pungent smell of the pesto thrown into the minestrone would draw itinerant rail
riders walking across the files from the track a quarter mile away The hungry
men would always be fed.
Grandma knew hunger as a child in England and she treasured
the bounty of food in Preston, Idaho provided. She remained thrifty and knew
how to use all the cuts of meat even the exotic ones and she always planted a vegetable
garden.
At home we used
the American system of measured volumes and Grandma used the palm of her and
the tips of her fingers. As kids we had the exquisite pleasure of making the
oil-holding impressions in the flattened dough with our thumbs.
My daughter was
born any years after Grandma died but after her braces were finally removed she
requested that we make my Grandmas chocolate chip focaccia. Her food is part of
her legacy to me. As I think of my grandma she is feeding us still.
First, get your kitchen in order, your
life, and your ingredients. Anything else you need you’ll buy at the store,
before you start making your little morsel chip cookies. Make a list and double
check it before you go to the store so that you won't forget anything. If you
find out half-way through your cookie making you're missing something, you're
going to be upset; cooks do best if they aren’t stressed. Once you have all the
ingredients, you are ready to begin. My
delicious chocolate chip cookie recipe was originally used, then altered to
promote the use of my company's Brussels connection of three centuries of under
doings before the year 1979. These days the industry is changing. With counties
like Germany and the Netherlands becoming larger European exporters in Belgium
a new class of chocolatier is finding innovative ways to hold on to the
country’s chocolate crown They are breaking away from traditional pralines—which
Belgians classify as any chocolate shell filled with a soft fondant center, and
infusing exotic flavors like or lemon verbena and creating
such imaginative pairings as blackcurrant and cardamom, raspberry and clove.
The city’s chocolate scene reflects the tension and result is some wonderfully
surprising creation to streamline my sampling recipe. But here below I present
the original, unadulterated version: the one I used to win in my junior year the
1952 South High School cooking competition in Salt Lake City.
Olde’ Time Chocolate Cookie Ingredients:
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1teaspoon
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 sticks softened butter
1
teaspoon vanilla extract
2eggs
3/4 cup granulated sugar 3/4
cup packed brown sugar
2 cups (12 oz. package)
semi-sweet chocolate morsels
1
cup chopped black walnuts; they are the secret for the best chocolate cookies,
natural defenders of the human body. Heart healthy rich in omega-3 fatty acid
and a top source of health promoting antioxidants. Also I must say walnuts are
s tasty, salt and cholesterol free, Preheat oven to 400°F. Combine flour,
baking soda and salt in bowl.
Slowly beat butter, granulated and brown
sugars, and vanilla in large bowl until creamy. Add eggs one at a time and beat
mixture until smooth. Gradually add dry ingredients. When well blended add
morsels and nuts. Drop a full tablespoon of the paraphernalia onto un-greased
baking sheets, about 2" apart. It’ now ready to go into the oven, worthy
of a trophy award outcome. Bake for 9 to 11 minutes until golden brown. Cool on
baking sheet for a couple of minutes and transfer to a wire rack until
completely cool. Be sure to eat at least six or eight while warm to ensure
quality control.
Have a Happy Chocolate Chip Cookie September!
DR.KARL WALLACE D.D.S.
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