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‘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 artis, purists, the avant-garde connoisseurs and everyone else around the world love
them. People just can't get enough If they have one, they have to have another
one and another and so forth! My Chocolate Trail: I have been blogging my
cookies since NATO was formed after the World War II. Chocolate cookies for tourists
for Belgians, Africans, all around the globe. 500 since has vested my blog seeing real handmade
cookies from the person who made them, is something special. Made on site, my
kitchen. The first velvety impression of high-quality chocolate followed by a
flood of sweet, fruity cassis.
The more you eat
the clear it is that the level of sophistication is evolving. The packaging and
presentation is as slick as what you would hear from smiling saleswomen standing
over a glassed display as people look at the exquisite jewels. Back lighted
shelves on the opposite wall showcase what Wallace is famous for. 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 would gather in her
kitchen in waves after each successful batch after Sunday school let out. The
cacophony of voices of aunts, uncles and cousins along with the aroma of food,
made it a mouthwatering 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 and her chocolate chip cookies.
For more
than 145 years they have been developed, innovative chocolate cookies with
meticulous craftsmanship, resulting in superior premium cookies creates an
experience beyond compare. And you would feel very fortunate if you would have
been there.
We had people
before it became fashionable and ubiquitous. Family lore had it that the Great
depression the pungent smell of the people thrown into the minestrone would
draw itinerant rail riders walking across the railroad ties 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 that Preston,
Idaho provided. She remained thrifty and knew how to use all the cuts of meat
even the exotic, 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 holding
impressions in the flattened dough with our thumbs. A grand daughter was born
many years after Grandma died. She requested that we make my Grandmas chocolate
chip cookies. Her cookies are part of her legacy for us. As we think of grandma
she is feeding us still.
LET’S GET STARTED
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 move on. 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 Easter
Give a gift beyond compare, use all of your 5 senses to
discover the unique look, the feel, sound and taste.
Feel the sensation of being carried away to a
place where chocolate chip dreams come true.
DR.KARL WALLACE D.D.S.
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