Recipe for "choc-chip-4"

NAME

     CHOC-CHIP-4 - Cookies like what Mom should have made
     There is no substitute for chocolate-chip cookies, warm  out
     of  the  oven,  washed  down  with cold milk.  This is Mom's
     recipe, and Mom's Mom's recipe.   This  is  also  Nestl  e's
     ``Toll  House''  recipe, and the Joy of Cooking ``Chocolate-
     Chip Drop Cookies'' recipe, etc, which  is  no  coincidence.
     This  is  the  default  recipe.   This  is  not Mrs. Field's
     recipe.  If you want Mrs. Field's, use a shopping  mall;  if
     you  want  simple, elegant, timeless chocolate-chip cookies,
     use this recipe.

INGREDIENTS (12 big cookies)

     115 g     flour
     2 ml      salt
     2.5 ml    baking soda
     100 g     butter, softened (1 stick)
     60 g      white sugar
     60 g      brown sugar
     2.5 ml    vanilla extract
     1         large egg
     175 g     Nestle's chocolate chips (1 package).

PROCEDURE

          (1)  Preheat oven to 190 deg.  C.   Sift  flour,  salt,
               baking soda together in a small bowl.
          (2)  In another  bowl,  mix  butter  with  two  sugars,
               vanilla  and  egg until smooth.  gradually mix dry
               stuff in with butter  mixture.  Mix  in  chocolate
               chips.
          (3)  Put blobs of dough on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake
               at 190 deg. C for 8-10 minutes.

NOTES

     Important: double all proportions above (always make 2 x  as
     much  of  these  as  the  recipe calls for).  Let's face it:
     small is beautiful, but big cookies are  better  than  small
     ones.  All  the  printed  recipes  call  for  teeny cookies,
     dropped by teaspoonsful onto cookie sheets (yield  50).   My
     ``blobs  of dough'' are golf-ball sized, which makes healthy
     3-4 inch cookies.
     I invariably make these on the spur of the  moment,  and  so
     usually  nuke  the butter in a microwave to soften it up.  I
     also occasionally cheat and soften up the butter/sugar  mix-
     ture a tad in the oven.
     Try adding  walnuts,  macadamias,  white  chocolate,  orange
     peel,  butterscotch  chips,  or  mint -all these are welcome
     variations.  But keep it simple.

RATING

     Difficulty: easy to moderate.  Time: 20 minutes.  Precision:
     measure the ingredients.

CONTRIBUTOR

     Mike Hawley, ucbvax!dagobah!mike
     The Droid Works, San Rafael, California