Crazy Old "Ant" Jennie’s Chocolate Chip Cookies

01/01/2006

Crazy Old “Ant” Jennie’s
Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 cup shortening
1 cup brown sugar (packed)
1/2 cup white sugar
2 eggs
2 and 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp. Baking soda
1 tsp. Salt
1 tsp. Vanilla
12-oz. Choc. chips (1 bag)
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Cream shortening,
brown sugar, and white sugar,
beat in eggs and vanilla,
add flour, soda, and salt,
add choc. chips last.
Make ball of dough size of golf balls,
put on cookie sheets,
flatten slightly,
Bake at 325 for 13 to 15 minutes.
They shouldn’t look quite
done when you take them out.
Take off pan and
let cool on brown paper bags.
Jennie K. Hanson, Wright