melliott@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (FRIENDLY DAEMON) (11/28/90)
This was my favorite cookie back in my younger years. I just received the recipe from my mother during the Thanksgiving weekend......enjoy NEED 1/2 cup cooking oil 4 squares (unsweetened) chocolate.....melted 2 cups sugar 4 eggs 2 tsp. vanilla 2 cups flour 2 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. salt 1 cup powdered sugar......<= will be some left over DIRECTIONS Mix oil, chocolate, + sugar. Blend in one egg at a time. Add vanilla. Stir in flour, baking powder + salt into mixture. Chill overnight or at least several hours. Roll chilled dough into balls (a little smaller than golf ball size) Roll in powdered sugar, and bake 10 to 12 minutes @ 350 deg. DO NOT OVERBAKE.......usually about 12 minutes