Several years ago one of my sisters-in-law came here for a few days and brought these cookies. Now I don't care for chocolate and I can't stand chocolate chips, but to be nice, I had one of her Mrs. Field's cookies. Then another and another...I could not stop. I asked that she leave the other fifty cookies with me and she hesitated. I offered Sally my first born and she said she'd just leave them on the table and took off in a flash. There is a story to go along with this which I am sure you all have heard before, but here goes: A woman and her daughter were having lunch in a big department store. They had these cookies for dessert and raved about them until the waitress said the recipe could be bought. The woman asked how much. The waitress said two fifty. Well, $2.50 didn't seem unreasonable so she said just add it to my charge and let me have the recipe. I guess she went home and stirred up a batch, and I mean a batch, I get about five dozen large cookies from this recipe. Back to the story, the bill came and the recipe cost two-fifty all right, $250. Yes, two hundred fifty dollars. Now days you can find any recipe you want online at no cost. And, the woman was so mad she circulated the recipe all of the nation and asked everyone who got the recipe to do the same.
Sally's Mrs. Field's Cookies
If you use a mixer it must be a BIG heavy duty one with a large bowl (that will not be large enough, believe me.)
cream together:
2 c. real butter
2 c. sugar
2 c. brown sugar
add:
4 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
mix together:
4 cup flour
5 c. oatmeal (having ground up one out of cup of oats to a fine grain)
1 tsp. salt (I use less)
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. baking soda
mix all ingredients together
now add: 24 oz. chocolate chips and 3 cups of nuts of your choice.
Bake on ungreased cookie sheet making golf ball sized cookies. Space 2" a part. Bake for 9-12 minutes at 375...depending on your oven.
