Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies (ca 1948)

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon hot water
• 2 1/4 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup chopped nuts
• 12 ounces semisweet chocolate morsels
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 cream butter.
• 2 add sugars.
• 3 add eggs.
• 4 sift flour and salt.
• 5 dissolve soda in water and add alternately with sifted flour mixture to butter and sugars.
• 6 add nuts and chocolate morsels.
• 7 stir in vanilla.
• 8 drop by half-teaspoonfuls onto lightly greased cookie sheet.
• 9 bake 10-12 minutes at 375°f.