Toll House Cookies

Its World Baking Day and my dear hubby requested Chocolate Chip Cookies.. so here's a recipe from 1940

This is the classic Toll House recipe that was invented before chocolate chips were available, and so it uses a cut chocolate bar instead. But honestly modern day chocolate chips work just as well. The cookies are not too sweet and turned out well.. even though I used tablespoon of mixture instead of a teaspoon. I also halved the amount of water in the recipe.

30th June 1940
The Minneapolis Star Newspaper

1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup butter or other shortening
1 egg
1-1/2 cups sifted flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons hot water
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
7 ounce bar semi-sweet chocolate
1/2 cup chopped walnuts

• Cut each small square of semisweet chocolate into four pieces.
• Cream butter or other shortening 
• Add sugars and beaten egg.
• Flavor with the vanilla
• Dissolve soda in the hot water and mix alternately with the flour sifted with the salt.
• Lastly, add the chopped nuts and the pieces of semisweet chocolate.
• Drop by half teaspoons on a greased cookie sheet.
• Bake 10 to 12 minutes in a 375 (F) degree Fahrenheit oven.