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Recipe: Nestle's Toll House Cookies recipe from 1940

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NESTLE'S TOLL HOUSE COOKIES RECIPE FROM 1940

"How to make famous Toll House cookies. From the famous Toll House Inn at Whitman, Massachusetts, comes this recipe for cookies that are taking the country by storm. You never tasted such a heavenly combination of flavors... each bite with a delicious morsel of Nestle's Semi-Sweet Chocolate and a nugget of walnut meat in it. And it's so easy if you follow this tested recipe. Try it tomorrow."

1 cup butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs, beaten whole
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon hot water
2 1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup chopped nuts
2 Nestle's Semi-Sweet Economy Bars (7-oz each)
1 teaspoon vanilla

"Important: Cut the Nestles's Semi-Sweet in pieces the size of a pea.

Cream butter and add sugars and beaten egg.

Dissolve soda in the hot water and mix alternately with the flour sifted with salt. Lastly add the chopped nuts and the pieces of semi-sweet chocolate. Flavor with the vanilla and drop half teaspoons on a greased cookie sheet.

Bake 10 to 12 minutes in a 375 degree F oven.

Makes 100 cookies."
Source: Nestle's ad in the Milwaukee Journal, May 21, 1940
MsgID: 018898
Shared by: R. Barton - Sacramento, CA
Board: Vintage Recipes at Recipelink.com
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