Today my brother and his crew are here pumping the manure
pits on our hog farm. The guys usually
pick lunch and dinner up at a local eatery. When they are at our farm I take them a dinner
that can be eaten on the go. Tonight it
will be pork burgers, chips, grapes and homemade cookies. This is not a fancy meal. It is certainly hard to be creative when
taking a meal out to the field but it should be a notch above store bought
dinner.
This afternoon I am making my favorite Chocolate Chip
Cookie. They are a bit different that the ones you find on the back of a
package of chips. The recipe comes from
an old family cookbook put together in the1980’s. The copy I have is from the second printing
of 1986. One of the authors was a Home
Economics teacher at Iowa State University.
She was a cousin to my husband’s father.
The Keiser Cookbook is a family cookbook of 54 pages of recipes with a
bit of family memories added in the back.
As with most German families the recipes are common but good. Some like the Cheese and Bacon sandwiches,
prune pie, and cottage cheese are recipes I will most likely never try. Almost all of the recipes sound good. The ones I have tried have been deemed “keepers”.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
From the files of Edna Gienger Pansegrau
½ cup butter
1/3 cup
canola oil
1 cup brown
sugar
1 cup white
sugar
2 eggs
3 cups
sifted flour
½ teaspoon
salt
1 teaspoon
baking soda
¼ cup very hot
water
1 teaspoon
vanilla
1 12 oz.
package semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup
chopped nuts – optional
Cream the
butter and oil together. Add sugar and
eggs. Dissolve soda in hot water and mix
alternately with the flour sifted with the salt. Add vanilla.
Lastly add chocolate and nuts.
Drop by spoon on greased cookie sheet.
Bake 10-12 minutes in a 375 degree oven.
I seldom sift my flour.
I usually add the water and flour mixtures in three batches each. Also I usually use two cups of regular flour
and one cup of whole wheat flour. The
only change I have made to the recipe is the butter and canola oil. The original recipe calls for 1 cup butter or
other shortening.
