Ginny’s Chocolate Chip Cookies.

The cookies I grew up with, they were always simple and delicious. My beautiful grandma is 90 years old this year.

My grandma, Virginia. Ginny for short, made these chocolate chip cookies quick and often. Raising 5 kids and 13 grandkids helped to have a recipe like this in your repertoire. Tasting them reminds me of my childhood and getting them out of the wise old brown owl cookie jar. Quick and awesome.

Gram’s Recipe:

Now for a bonus! Grandma Florence’s Wheaties Cookies

Grandma Florence was my Uncle Cao’s sponsor when he was a refugee in Vietnam. I remember she had a huge white brick house on the corner of 7th Ave S in Fargo, North Dakota. She supported many Vietnamese Refugees in North Dakota after the fall of Saigon in 1975. She was always very nice. She passed away in the 1990’s, but I was lucky to get this recipe from my Aunt Jill.

Ah Crisco. Now, whenever I hear it, I can only see and hear Minny from the movie, The Help. She talks about cooking with Crisco. In the movie, Minny says,

“Well, I reckon if there’s anything you ought to know ’bout cooking… It’s this. [Crisco] The most important invention since they put mayonnaise in a jar. You don’t even know the things you can do with this here can” [Crisco] ain’t just for frying. You ever get a sticky something stuck in your hair, like gum?… That’s right, Crisco.“

Here is the recipe in Grandma Florence’s handwriting:

Sorry, you have to do the work to read it if you want to try this recipe.

The finished cookies! Thank you to my Grams for her recipe to my Aunt Jill for sharing these cookies. Eating them brings back memories and time spent together to cherish.

Now I want cookies…