Ingredients
2 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup (2 sticks)
1 softened butter or margarine
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
1 cup coarsely chopped nuts (opt)
1 package (12 oz) semi-sweet real
1 semi-sweet chocolate chips
Directions
Mix flour with baking soda and salt; set aside. Beat butter, sugars,
vanilla and eggs until light and fluffy. Blend in flour mixture. Stir
in nuts and chips. Drop from teaspoon, 2 inches apart, onto ungreased
baking sheets. Bake at 375 for about 10 minutes or until golden
brown. Makes about 6 dozen.
Servings: 1 servings
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Categories: Chocolate; Cookie; Dessert
The History of Recipes
Written recipes as a concept can be traced way back into the far past, in truth as far back into history as the early Egyptians, and possibly even further than that. Interesting though that maybe, mostly, these ancient cookbooks were just very simple pictorial recipes for food preparation.
Fascinatingly, the oldest recipe in existence, according to Professor Solomon Katz, are some tablets in Sumerian which recount the baking of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as having made those who drank it feel wonderful and blissful. Moving our culinary historical trip onwards, there are a couple of cookery books which appeared in the 14th Century ; a recipe book titled `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary titled `Curye on Inglish`. Perhaps surprisingly, these books are not about the spicy food that is popular today, but instead recipes for the types of meals enjoyed by the rich people of the period. Over the following few centuries, the wealthy families of Wesstern Europe competed to lay on the most extravagent meals, and as a consequence, the best cooks and their recipe collections were highly sought after. Nevertheless, it wasn`t until the nineteenth century the formal cooking and recipe collections reached a high level of popularity. Mrs Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Farmer in the USA, spent years to collecting, verifying, and writing down recipes for their fellow cooks to enjoy. When we get to the 1900s, recipe publications are highly popular mostly as a result of more people being able to read, people having more leisure time and being a little richer. |
We hope you enjoy this Baker's Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe.
