Chocolate Chip Cookies

The best chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. This recipe is from The Mennonite Treasury (page 173 in the edition I have).

Ingredients

1 cup shortening
2/3 cup white sugar (1/3 is plenty)

2/3 cup brown sugar (1/3 is plenty)

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

1½ cups flour

1 tsp salt (if you reduce sugar, reduce salt!)

1 tsp baking soda

1 pkg chocolate chips (2/3 cup is a good amount)

2 cups oats
1/3 cup nuts (optional)

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 

Cream shortening, add sugars gradually. Add eggs and beat well. Add vanilla.

Sift flour, salt, and baking soda. Add to creamed mixture.

Add nuts, chocolate chips, and oats last.

Drop by teaspoonsful on greased cookie sheets and bake in 350 degree oven for 12 minutes.

Notes

I've made many variations of this recipe. You could replace some of the flour with bran. You could use a multigrain flour. You could use chopped up chocolate bars instead of chocolate chips.