liz's astounding chocolate chip cookies

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/8 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 1/4 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Recipe

• preheat oven to 350 degrees f (175 degrees c).
• in a mixing bowl, cream shortening and sugars. add beaten egg and vanilla, mix well. sift flour, baking soda and salt together. stir into creamed mixture; blend thoroughly. fold in chocolate chips.
• drop by teaspoon cookie sheets. bake in oven for 6-9 minutes, depending on size. do not overbake. cookies should be a little brown around the edges when taken out. let cookies cool for a few minutes before removing from baking sheet. finish cooling on rack. note: if you use miniature chocolate chips, you can decrease the amount needed in recipe from 11/4 cups to 1 cup and not affect the quality of the cookies.