Chocolate Chip Cookies

These are the original Toll House Recipe, minus the water test for the soda, adapted for whole wheat flour or not--your choice


Sheets lightly greased         Oven 375 degrees F        Time 12-13 minutes

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

2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla (if not milling with the wheat)

Mill 350 grams soft wheat with 2 inches of chopped vanilla bean
or
2 1/4 cup unbleached or whole wheat pastry flour

 
teaspoon baking soda
teaspoon salt

1 cup chopped toasted walnuts (about 8 ounces, optional)
1 cup chocolate chips (about 6 ounces)
   
Cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy.  Beat in the eggs and vanilla until smooth and light.  

Whisk flour, soda and salt together, then stir into wet;  add the nuts and chips and stir again just until mixed.  

Drop by teaspoonsful onto lightly greased sheets, leaving plenty of room for spreading.  Bake 12-13 minutes until pleasantly golden all over.

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Makes 6 1/2 dozen cookies @ 70 calories:
     57    % fat        41% carbos          6  % protein

*Substitute 2 1/4 C unbleached or whole wheat pastry flour

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