Carolyn@tektools.UUCP (10/03/85)
Cream: 2/3 cup shortening or margarine
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
Blend at high speed for 5 minutes or until light and fluffy;
Add: 2 eggs
1 tsp. real vanilla
1/2 tsp. water
Blend again until light and fluffy (5 minutes..)
Mix together: 2 1/4 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
Add to creamed mixture. Mix in 12 oz chocolate chips and nuts if desired.
Bake 375 for 8-10 minutes (or less depending on how soft you like them)
As you can see, this recipe does not contain butter. The current nestle
recipe was changed about 2 years or so ago to have butter instead of margarine
(probably because butter is the "trend" these days...) trb@cbscc.UUCP (Tom Balent) (10/04/85)
>As you can see, this recipe does not contain butter. The current nestle >recipe was changed about 2 years or so ago to have butter instead of >margarine >(probably because butter is the "trend" these days...) I find the recent comments about lard, and now this, to be amusing. Do people really believe that life (and recorded history) started in 1950? Lard, a totally "natural" (if not healthy) ingredient has been used for hundreds, no, thousands of years. As for toll house cookies, the original Toll House (in Massachusetts) made the toll house cookie (hence the name) before the invention of margarine. Therefore, it is probably safe to assume that the orginal toll house cookies were made with butter (or maybe even lard?). BTW - the Toll House burned down last year. I wonder if it is to be rebuilt. trb at&t-ns cb "Possession is a clue, but not the game. So please leave this world as clean as when you came." - Roy Harper