{"id":663,"date":"2003-08-08T08:20:26","date_gmt":"2003-08-08T13:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=663"},"modified":"2003-08-08T08:20:26","modified_gmt":"2003-08-08T13:20:26","slug":"chocolate-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/08\/chocolate-chip\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Chip Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chocolate Chip Cookies<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is a favorite family recipe.  In college, a friend used to call these &#147;destroyers&#148; (as in, they destroy your will to resist.)<br \/>\nIt makes a light, flavorful cookie with a hint of crisp.  To Christmas-ify it, you could substitute red and green M&#038;Ms for the chocolate chips.<br \/>\nMy sisters and I used to experiment with adding different flavor extracts.  I liked almond; we also got good results with a hint of peppermint extract.<br \/>\nChocolate Chip Cookies<br \/>\n1 cup shortening, butter, or margarine (I get the best results with half shortening, half butter.  Shortening gives a nice texture and butter gives a nice taste)<br \/>\n1 cup sugar<br \/>\n&frac12; cup brown sugar<br \/>\n2 eggs<br \/>\n2 tsp vanilla<br \/>\n2 cups sifted all-purpose flour<br \/>\n1 tsp baking soda<br \/>\n&frac12; tsp salt<br \/>\n12 oz chocolate chips<br \/>\nPreheat oven to 375 degrees and grease cookie sheets.<br \/>\nCream shortening and sugar until fluffy.  Stir in eggs and vanilla until smooth.<br \/>\nSift flour, soda, and salt together and stir in.<br \/>\nStir in chocolate chips.<br \/>\nDrop by spoonfuls onto cookie sheets.  Bake 10-12 minutes.  Cool on a cooling rack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chocolate Chip Cookies This is a favorite family recipe. In college, a friend used to call these &#147;destroyers&#148; (as in, they destroy your will to resist.) It makes a light, flavorful cookie with a hint of crisp. To Christmas-ify it, you could substitute red and green M&#038;Ms for the chocolate chips. My sisters and I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/08\/chocolate-chip\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chocolate Chip Cookies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}