Victory Chocolate Chip Cookies
1940's Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe. This recipe is slightly different from the Nestle Tollhouse recipe and came out around the same time.
Servings 24
Ingredients
- 1⅛ Cups Flour Sifted
- ¼ teaspoon Baking Soda
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- ½ Cup Shortening Butter Flavored
- ¼ Cup Brown Sugar Tightly Packed
- ½ Cup Granulated Sugar
- 1 Egg Beaten
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla
- 8 Ounces Semisweet Chocolate Chips
- ½ Cup Walnuts Chopped
Instructions
- Set oven to 350°F.
- Grease a cookie sheet or line with parchment paper and set aside.
- Sift flour, soda, and salt in together in a small bowl. Set aside.
- Using a mixer, cream shortening and sugar.
- Add beaten egg and vanilla. Mix thoroughly.
- Add sifted ingredients.
- Fold in chocolate chips and nuts.
- Use cookie scoop or drop from teaspoon onto greased or lined cookie sheet.
- Bake at 350°F for 10-12 minutes.
Notes
- I prefer the butter-flavored shortening (in stick form), so I get the fat of the shortening with the flavor of the butter. It is the best of both worlds, in my opinion.
- The recipe says that it makes 50 cookies, but I could only make 21 using my cookie scoop. I’m guessing that their cookies were half the size of mine. If you want about 4 dozen, I suggest you double the recipe.
- It also said that the cookies would be done in 10 minutes and mine were done in 12. I would suggest checking them at 10 minutes and then baking 1 minute more until they are done to your liking.
- Nuts are optional, but I added them to stay true to the recipe.
- One thing that I found strange was that it called for 1 and 1/8 cups of flour. Since I don’t have a 1/8 measuring cup, I filled half a ¼ measuring cup to get that measurement.