5 : lg Eggs; separated, at room
0: 1
1: Preheat oven to 190 øC
2: Sift flour, salt, baking soda together in a small bowl
3: 2
4: In another bowl, mix butter with two sugars, vanilla and egg until smooth
5: gradually mix dry stuff in with butter mixture
6: Mix in chocolate chips
7: 3
8: Put blobs of dough on ungreased cookie sheet
9: Bake at 190 øC for 8-10 minutes
10: Author's Notes: There is no substitute for chocolate-chip cookies, warm out of the oven, washed down with cold milk
11: This is Mom's recipe, and Mom's Mom's recipe
12: This is also Nestle's ``TollHouse'' recipe, and the Joy of Cooking ``Chocolate-Chip Drop Cookies'' recipe, etc, which is no coincidence
13: This is the default recipe
14: This is not Mrs
15: Field's recipe
16: If youwant Mrs
17: Field's, use a shopping mall; if you want simple, elegant, timeless chocolate-chip cookies, use this recipe
18: Important: double all proportions above (always make 2x as much of these as the recipe calls for)
19: Let's face it: small is beautiful, but big cookies are better than small ones
20: All the printed recipes call for teeny cookies, dropped by teaspoonsful onto cookie sheets (yield 50)
21: My ``blobs of dough'' are golf-ball sized, which makes healthy 3-4 inch cookies
22: I invariably make these on the spur of the moment, and so usually nuke the butter in a microwave to soften it up
23: I also occasionally cheat and soften up the butter/sugar mixture a tad in the oven
24: Try adding walnuts, macadamias, white chocolate, orange peel, butterscotch chips, or mint - all these are welcome variations
25: But keep it simple
26: Difficulty : easy to moderate
27: Precision : measure the ingredients
28: Recipe By : Mike Hawley, ucbvax!dagobah!mike The Droid Works, San Rafael From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www
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