Did you grow up with these cookies? Let me know in the comments!

@brendakrieger7000

Жыл бұрын

Sure did!

@Nerak7219

Жыл бұрын

I grew up with that Cooky book! Best lemon bar recipe on the planet in there.

@rhondadupras2477

9 ай бұрын

Yes, I grew up with these

The original original, from the Toll House restaurant (according to Ruth Wakefield's 1940 cookbook) called for 1 c. butter, 3/4 c. brown sugar, 3/4 c. granulated sugar, 2 beaten eggs, 1 tsp. soda dissolved in 1 tsp. hot water, 2 1/4 c. flour, 1 tsp. salt, 1 c. chopped nuts, 14 oz. chopped semi-sweet chocolate (this was before chocolate chips were a thing), and 1 tsp. vanilla.

@theeyesehaveit

6 ай бұрын

I saw this while watching Cooking the Books and so I tried it the other day. The original, original Ruth Wakefields cookbook recipe. And the cookies came out great. Nestle now offers a Toll House dark chocolate morsel…bit bigger than chips and they made the cookies very tasty. Crispy outside, soft centers. Thanks for posting. Barbara in Al.

I only ate two kinds of cookies when I was growing up because my mom refused to buy cookies. Her mom's snickerdoodle recipe and these. There's definitely a lot of nostalgia with these.

@cooking_the_books

Жыл бұрын

Snickerdoodles are a favorite in our household, too!

I thought I had this cookbook. I thinned out my cookbook collection several times. I just REbought this book on ebay. Thank you for reminded me of this book.

Oh, you should make the exact same cookies (or another food item) sometime using both a modern recipe and a vintage one and then see if someone and see if they can guess which is which. Toll House cookies were always my go to when I was a child but now I prefer them with mix of chocolate chips and pb chips.

@cooking_the_books

Жыл бұрын

Ooh this is a great idea!! Well both are great ideas - the video where someone does a taste test, as well as the PB chips. 😄

So great that you are baking your way through the fabulous Betty Crocker cookie book. Since I have had that cookbook for 59 years, I can’t remember how many times I’ve made those cookies and always with walnuts, yum! My book has “Best Ever” written in pencil above the title of the recipe put there by my boyfriend when I was 17. Those cookies were also mailed to Vietnam when he was deployed as a Marine. He came back just fine. That book is a sea of memories for me.❤️🍪

@cooking_the_books

11 ай бұрын

The Cooky Book is such a favorite of mine, and many others seem to have fond memories of it too. I remember just looking through it as a kid...all those incredible photos of delicious looking cookies!

I did grow up with these. You cannot go wrong when it comes to chocolate chip cookies!😊

@cooking_the_books

Жыл бұрын

Right? I will never say no to a chocolate chip cookie! 😂

My mom made these every year for Christmas that was in the 70’s and 80’s and I still make this same recipe every year at Christmas time.

This is interesting to me because my family (both family of origin and my children) think that homemade are not only more attractive because they are not artificially shaped but also that the Toll house cookie is the best chocolate chip possible, including Mrs Fields or whatever. I just assumed that everyone felt that way.

I did grow up with the nestle toll house cookies from the back of the package, we usually add seasonal m&ms to them for any holiday. Love seeing the differences between the original and the one on the package!

@cooking_the_books

Жыл бұрын

YES the seasonal M&Ms! I loved adding those, too. Thanks for watching!

This brought back memories...wow. My mom made the tablespoon version with crisco and butter. She loved butter, crisco, sweets and eventually came down with hardening of arteries disease but lived a long life .

I too cut the recipe from the bag back in the 70's I then cut another out maybe later in the 80's. There was a change in the recipe. I try to use the older one since I like it better

(Tom's wife using his account). I love this video! I grew up with the original recipe-the one you used in this video. My dad preferred cookies to be "crispy" (the shortening makes cookies crispy). My husband on the other hand, prefers soft and "Chewy" cookies. Which is what you'll have when you use the recipe on the bag (no shortening, just butter). Either way, they're both wonderful!

@cooking_the_books

Жыл бұрын

We typically go for soft/chewy/giant chocolate chip cookies in our house nowadays, but it was nice to go back to the original for something different. I'm loving all of these tiny cookies. As always, thank you for watching and for your kind comments!

These are the best cookies period!

That's the recipe I grew up with, but we only ever made bars. I still have my Mom's copy of this cookbook and the page for this recipe is a mess. As a child, I was confused by the butter measurement, I think it measured in cups and I just wanted to know how many sticks that was, so I wrote the equivalent on the page. At least once a butter wrapper landed greasy side down on the page, smearing the writing. There's dried on bits of batter, too. And the back cover has a burn mark from a kitchen mishap when I was an adult. I wasn't even using the book, I don't think, but Mom had her cookbooks on the counter by her stove and when I was cooking some other recipe, I knocked over something that created a bit of a domino effect (quite a few things happened at once and I felt a bit like Lucy Ricardo for a moment) and as I cleaned that up, I realized the cooky book was burning on the burner I had just been using.

This recipe is pure nostalgia and I'm here for it! ❤ Just makes me happy to make these and watch people make them haha --- this is one of the first things I learned to bake as a kid and spawned my lifelong love of baking!

Wow I thought the one on tollhouse bag was the original lol , I guess like everything you have to have upgrades , whether they are better or not lol I burned out my beater gear on one of my mixers by beating too much flour . It got too thick lol Just like all our food we go for the bigger sizes now

@cooking_the_books

Жыл бұрын

I was surprised by how much the recipe has changed!

I love those cookies with no favor crisco shortening only, they are fabulous that way. Only way my mom would make them and always a hit

By far, still my favorite cookie! The CCC

This is it! My aunt (who had 7 kids) always made the best and tallest chocolate chip cookies. Ours were always flatter and kind of blah. But these! A bit higher and I'm guessing a bit more body to them. Maybe it's the shortening? Got to add this to my fav. recipe list on here. Also, when did we change from 'cooky' to 'cookie'? I know Peg Bracken's 'I hate to cook' cookbooks spell it with y and those are from 60s.

Would LOVE you to do a fantastic snooker doodle recipe. I’ve had many bland, dry etc ones and very few great ones. Would love to make my own terrific ones.

There is a gourmet chocolate chip cookie baker in Grand Rapids Michigan. Monica's Gourmet Cookies. It is by far the best cookie I've ever had. They're a birthday pricey but soo worth it.

I did not know that the chocolate chip cookie has only been around for over 80 years. That's pretty cool

I also like when they spread out more and are a little crispy, probably due to the fast that I use

Hi Anna 😊 I think your cookies look great. I don’t mind chopped nuts in chocolate chip cookies. Yum! I remember making the recipe on back of the package. My mom clipped the recipe and kept it in her Tupperware recipe box.

@cooking_the_books

Жыл бұрын

The Tupperware recipe box! I love it!

What a nice surprise! This recipe is the first and only I ever used as a kid. My mom was a home economics teacher and as soon as I knew the alphabet & could read a bit, she had me making the cookies myself (around age 8), except I used oleo and there weren’t 2/3 cup markings on the oleo wrapper, so mom would come in and help cut it to the approximate size. That and sometimes she’d stir the margarine and sugar for me when the margarine was still cold. I still have the Cooky Book, although the front cover has fallen off & the toll house cookie page is all smudged & greasy looking. My sister’s favorite were the lemon bars & that’s the only other beat up looking page in the book. Oh the memories!

My favorite

I've always added walnuts to my cc cookies. I love cookies, will take a cookie over cake any day. I like "small" cookies. This is a normal size to me. Super large cookies look great but you have to break them up. I want to grab a cookie and eat it in one hand.

Just interesting to hear about the subtle (or not so) changes in the recipe over the years! Who doesn't love a good old, reliable chocolate chip cookie? Doesn't have to be fancy or knock-your-socks-off wild to still be an amazing cookie experience. Good tip with the smaller chocolate chips for better distribution! They sound lovely!

@cooking_the_books

Жыл бұрын

I know, right? I have so many questions....what prompted the change? How many times did the recipe evolve? This is still a good solid recipe, and I would never turn down a chocolate chip cookie! 😄

Mmmmmm - I can smell (and taste) this whole video! Our family's favorite, for sure.

We always made the candycane ones for Christmas

@cooking_the_books

11 ай бұрын

The candy cane cookies seem to be a holiday staple many people! 😀

All butter will make cookies chewy/ crispy. Shortening makes them softer more cake like

I like this video, you have a great “TV” personality. I am more interested in seeing unusual cookies/ other cooked/baked items from those older cookbooks. As in, food items we wouldn’t really eat these days

@cooking_the_books

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I have a few videos from the earlier days of my channel (Ham Banana Rolls....definitely not a winner in my book!). Hoping to explore more of this type of recipe soon! Do you watch Glen and Friends? He makes a lot of older recipes on his Old Cookbook Show. It's great!

Wonderful thanks for sharing

@cooking_the_books

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, Doris!

Yummmmm

Chopped pecans all day long, fantastic

My Gammy used 1/2 Crisco and 1/2 margarine or butter

@cooking_the_books

Жыл бұрын

Aha, great to have confirmation that this is what was done in the past! It has worked well for the Cooky Book recipes I've been making lately. Thanks for watching!

I couldn’t figure out why my toll house cookies turned out different than my mother-in-law’s. Then one day I watched her bake them. She was using butter flavored Crisco and butter. I was using all butter. Also, she was refrigerating the Dough first.

Agh this looks so good. I can smell those cookies ahhhhhh

@cooking_the_books

Жыл бұрын

Such a nostalgic smell...

As I am Australian I didn't grow up eating these biscuits. Most Australian kids grew up eating ANZAC biscuits that their mums lovingly made for them.

@MeMe-Moi

Жыл бұрын

ANZAC biscuits are amazing. We have an baker at the local farmers market who married an Australian and got the recipe from his mother in law. Everyone knows that these biscuits will be sold out within the first half hour on market day, but they are worth the fuss.

@cooking_the_books

Жыл бұрын

I had to look them up, but it sounds like ANZAC biscuits are a little bit like Ranger cookies. Maybe more crispy. I'm going to try and get my hands on some golden syrup so I can give them a try!

@ebgbjo2025

Жыл бұрын

@@cooking_the_books What are ranger biscuits? I havent heard of them OR ANZAC cookies. I think I am missing out lol

@tracieeaton1082

Жыл бұрын

@@cooking_the_books I have the original recipe for ANZAC biscuits if you would like it Anna.

@tracieeaton1082

Жыл бұрын

@@MeMe-Moi I make ANZAC ( which is an acronym for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) Biscuits at least once a fortnight for my family.

My favorite cookie !

@cooking_the_books

Жыл бұрын

They are so good! Can't go wrong!

Delicious🍪

@cooking_the_books

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😋

@brendakrieger7000

Жыл бұрын

@@cooking_the_books you're welcome😊

My chocolate chip cookie memories are from my grandmother, but hers were more cakey texture. Think almost the texture of a muffin top, but not quite. So, I got a shock when I met the Nestlé version at college

@cooking_the_books

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow...yeah that would be quite the surprise! 😂

Yummmm....with nuts....wven better!😊

I wanna try this superb nd perfect cookies🇵🇰🤝🏼👍🥰♥️😂😍Thanks for well explained easy making😋😋😋😋alot of prayers and likes👍💕💚

@cooking_the_books

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! ❤️

Interesting about the sizes and portions

@cooking_the_books

Жыл бұрын

Yes! I'm curious about what prompted the changes. Did they do focus groups? Customer surveys?

This is still a great chocolate chip cookie.😊

@cooking_the_books

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Still a classic forever.

I use my own chocolate chip cookie recipe, I find the toll house recipe too sweet. And maybe I'm strange, but I like to make cookies with shortening and not butter

How about replacing butter for bacon drippings?

@cooking_the_books

10 ай бұрын

worth a try!

I made these all the time in the 60's. Shortening is the only way to go...I don't like them made with butter. Just not the same...

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I don't mind the nuts, but my mother would fail to realize when the nuts oils went bad and would use them... yuck!!!

Chocolate chip cookies are my husband's very favorite--usually for his birthday I'll make him a batch (and freeze the extras so he can enjoy them over a long period.) I usually use the recipe from my Betty Crocker cookbook of the late 1960s, which is probably the same as the one in the Cooky Book, come to think of it.

@cooking_the_books

Жыл бұрын

I loooove freezing cookies, or even just scooped balls of dough. Even when I cut recipes in half we can't seem to eat up everything I've baked, so freezing has been a great solution.