| 1 | Note: all standard chocolate chip cookie ingredients. |
| 2 | For authenticity, use c&h sugar, hershey"s chocolate chips, and diamond walnuts. |
| 3 | Chips may be semi-sweet or milk chocolate (mrs. |
| 4 | Fields sells both varieties). |
| 5 | Extract is the real kind made from vanilla beans, per ban on artificial flavorings. |
| 6 | The only "secret" ingredient, milk, adds moisture, cooks into a fudge with butter and sugar. |
| 7 | Soda creates an airy, cake-like texture. |
| 8 | Directions: mix sugars, butter and margarine in an electric mixer. |
| 9 | Add other wet ingredients, mixing well; then mix in flour, baking soda, and salt; then chocolate chips and nuts. |
| 10 | Wear a plastic glove when forming golf ball-sized lumps of dough. |
| 11 | Chill in refrigerator about a day. |
| 12 | Set dough on ungreased lightweight baking sheet and flatten with gloved hand. |
| 13 | Cook at 325 °F. |
| 14 | For about 15 ?minutes (time will vary with oven and temperature of dough). |
| 15 | Cookies will be very soft when taken from oven. |
| 16 | Carefully lift with spatula and place on rack to cool. |
| 17 | Target thickness of finished cookie: one half inch. |
| 18 | Day-old cookies may be donated to the homeless. |
