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     Title: Thick & Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Categories: Cookies
     Yield: 18 servings

 2 1/8 c  Flour 2 c.+2t. unsifted
   1/2 ts Salt
   1/2 ts Baking soda
    12 tb Butter; melted/cooled
     1 c  Brown sugar; light or dark
   1/2 c  Granulated sugar
     1 lg Egg plus
     1    Egg yolk
     2 ts Vanilla extract
     1 c  Chocolate chips; (1 to 2)

 Recipe by: COOK'S ILLUSTRATED
    Turn oven 325 deg and adjust oven racks to upper & lower middle
 positions.
    1. Mix flour & soda in bowl. set aside.
    2. mix butter & sugars until thoroughly blended. mix in egg, yolk, &
 vanilla.
    3. add dry ingredients mix until just blended
    4. add chips
    5. form scant 1/4 cup dough ball. holding ball using fingertips of both
 hands, pull the ball apart in equal halves. rotate 90 degrees and , with
 jagged ends up put back together at base to make single cookie. you want
 the topsuneven ; 6. make about 9 per sheet on parchment paper
   7. bake reversing cookie sheets position halfway through baking, until
 cookies are light golden brown and outer edges start to harden, yet centers
 are soft & puffy, 15 to 18 min. start checking at 13 min.
   These are great. Kathy

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