Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies (Ca 1948)

Countrywife's Note:

This is from the re-print of the Toll House 1948 cookbook, originally called Chocolate Crunch Cookies. Ruth Graves Wakefield had some wonderful recipes. This is the latest in my search for her original recipe that was the first chocolate chip cookie.

• Total Time: 20 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 100 cookies

• 1 cup butter
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 3/4 cup white 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

Directions:

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.

Reviews

[Babychops]

Just add the eggs after you cream the butter & sugars (folks were asking) the other thing I would do differently than stated is add the vanilla before the nuts & chocolate. I also use M&Ms instead. Just my preference. Grew up w/this recipe. Love it. Thanks for posting so I don't have to go buy a Nestle bag!

[NancyB]

Just resurrected this after a number of attempts at making cookies. You can't beat this one. Am saving it so I don't have to go hunting again!!!

[Amanthys]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I have been hunting for this recipe for a long time! I couldn't remember what I was missing. The SIFTING, (the water; or no water and change the flour to 2c and 2T) and I use only dark brown sugar. This is the recipe I grew up with learning to bake; and EATING!