Good morning and welcome to Sunday, the beginning of what promises to be a wonderful new week. To celebrate, this morning, I’m baking up some traditional chocolate chip cookies, but extremely timely.  Yep, the cookies for this morning are chocolate chip cookies, which Betty Crocker declared (by the way, when good ol’ Betty Crocker speaks, people listen) the “Best Cooky of 1935-1940.”  That’s right, this morning we are officially celebrating the end of the Great Recession with the best cookie from the end of the Great Depression.  All things old are new again.

These are a delightful chocolate chip cookie that brown up nicely on the bottom. I credit this in part to the use of Crisco shortening, instead of butter.  Normally, I am not a big fan of the Crisco in lieu of butter substitution, but in this case, it works.

Also, just a quick story that brought a smile to my face. A few years back, my folks were visiting and I was baking cookies on a Saturday night to bring to church the following morning.  My mother observed that I was measuring my vanilla extract with a measuring spoon, then she taught me a really useful trick.  On standard vanilla extract bottles, if you remove the cap and fill it with vanilla, it comes out to be exactly one teaspoon.  Cool, huh?  Give it a try and you will never go back to measuring your vanilla.

Any who, welcome to Sunday morning and enjoy a delicious and surprisingly timely chocolate chip cookie.

“BEST OF” CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

2/3 cup Crisco Shortening

½ cup Sugar

½ cup Brown Sugar

1 Egg

1 teaspoon Vanilla

1½ cups Flour

½ teaspoon Baking Soda

½ teaspoon Salt

1 cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips

 

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Cream shortening, sugar, and brown sugar.

Mix in egg and vanilla. Set aside.

Combine flour, baking soda, and salt.

Mix “flour mixture” into “shortening mixture.”

Stir in chocolate chips.

Drop by tablespoons of dough onto parchment paper lined baking sheets.

Bake for 8 minutes or until just browned. Cookies will be browned around the edges.

Makes about 32 cookies.

Revised Source: “Chocolate Chip Cookies,” from Betty Crocker’s Cooky Book.  Page 144.  1963.

I forgot to take a photo of the chocolate chip cookies, before I delivered them to church this morning. As a result, I figured I would provide the next best thing…  proof of their title, “Best Cooky of 1935-1940.”