Toll House Cookies

Name: Toll House Cookies
Yield: Makes approx. 36
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon (2.5 ml spoon) vanilla essence (see note); 4 oz (100 g) plain flour; ½ teaspoon (2.5 ml spoon) bicarbonate of soda; ½ teaspoon (2.5 ml spoon) salt; 4 oz (100 g) butter; 1½ oz (40 g) granulated sugar; 3 oz (75 g) soft dark brown sugar; 1 egg; 4 oz (100 g) bar of plain chocolate, cut into pea-size pieces; 2 oz (50 g) chopped walnuts

Preparation info

Makes approx.
36

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Cooking of the USA

By Patricia Lousada

Published 1993

About

In the days when you had to pay for crossing the Mississippi River it was possible to rest and buy coffee and cookies in the house of the toll-man. Toll House Cookies, often known as chocolate chip cookies, are world-famous. When you smell them baking and taste them you will understand their lasting popularity.

Ingredients

4 oz (100 g) butter
1½ oz (40

Americas
United States
Cookies
Vegetarian

Method

First preheat the oven. Cream the butter and the two sugars together until light and fluffy. Lightly mix the egg and vanilla essence and gradually beat into the creamed mixture. Sift together the flour, bicarbonate of soda and salt and stir into the mixture. Finally stir in the chocola