REESE ELIZABETH SHEFFIELD (Nashville, Tennessee) is the second of two granddaughters of Grandma KATHLEEN GANDY SHEFFIELD. While Kathleen was born in White Settlement, Texas, she now lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Reese and big sister Isabel share that Grandma’s chocolate chip cookies are their absolute favorite! Grandma frequently makes these for the girls, and they are their “prize” to be earned when they eat a good supper. Grandma received this recipe from a fellow army wife when PawPaw was stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
1 cup (2 sticks) margarine, softened
1 cup vegetable oil
1 ½ cups sugar
1 ½ cups brown sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 tablespoon water
1 (12 ounce) package semisweet chocolate chips
5 ½ cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
½ chopped walnuts (optional)
1 Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2 In a large bowl use a hand mixer to cream the margarine, oil, sugar, and brown sugar together. Add the eggs, vanilla, water, chocolate chips, flour, baking soda, salt, and walnuts, and mix well. (Kathleen lets the dough sit in the refrigerator overnight so it is are a lot easier to handle the next day.) Drop by teaspoonfuls, onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes.
MAKES APPROXIMATELY 4 DOZEN COOKIES.