Chocolate Chip Cookies

Dessert

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Ingredients

3 lb	sugar
3 lb	brown sugar
4 lb	vegetable shortening
2 oz	salt
2 oz	baking soda
1 qt	eggs
7 1/2 lb [?]	cake flour
4 lb	chocolate chips

Method

Cream the sugars, shortening, salt, baking soda and eggs for 4 minutes.
Scrape the bowl.
Add the cake flour and mix.
Mix in the chocolate chips.

Notes

Use all white sugar in summer.
1 qt eggs = about 20 large, 20 medium or 25-30 small (as written: "1lb lg = 20 md = 25-30 sm").
8 oz dough = 1 dozen cookies.

As written in 1982

Choc. Chip
3lbs sugar      (all white in summer)
3lbs b. sugar
4lbs veg short.
2oz salt
2oz bak. soda
1q eggs (1lb lg = 20 md = 25-30 sm)
cream for 4 min.
scrape.
add 7 1/2lbs cake flour
mix. 4lbs choc. chips
(8oz = 1dozen)