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. She always made an extra
batch for funerals of the deceased church members around the area. 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. Grandma used the palm of her and the tips of her fingers. As
kids we had the exquisite pleasure of making the holding impressions in the
flattened dough with our thumbs.
My daughter was born many years after Grandma died. She requested that
we make my Grandmas chocolate chip cookies. Her cookies and food is part of her
legacy for us. As we think of 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. Here below I
present the original, unadulterated version: the one I used that won in my
junior year 1952 South High School cooking competition.
Olde’
Time Chocolate Cookie Ingredients:
2
1/4 cups all-purpose flour
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 December!
DR.KARL WALLACE D.D.S.
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