OK, I usually start a batch of cookies by making sure I have everything I need. Here is the list I use.

• 1 kitchen (it's the room all the baking stuff is in. if you can't find one, give up now.)
• 1 power mixer (I use a Sunbeam MixMaster, but anything is better than a wooden spoon.)
• hardware for mixer (bowl, beaters, power cord...)
• 1 rubber scraper (I had a home ec. teacher that would kill you for calling those "spatulas".)
• 1 teaspoon (the kind you measure with, not the long-handled things.)
• 1 measuring cup (you know, the pyrex thing)
• 2 baking sheets (they look like sheet metal.)
• 1 oven (with associated hardware.)
• 1 spatula (the long metal whippy thing, not a rubber scraper.)
• 2 plates (if you don't know, give up. now.)

I think I'm forgetting something.... oh yeah. oops.

• 2 eggs (little roundish white things.)
• 3/4cup of brown sugar (soft, brown, sweet stuff)
• 3/4cup of white sugar (hard, white, sweet stuff)
• 1 cup crisco, butter, etc. (you aren't still reading these, are you?)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla (it comes in these cute little bottles...)
• 2 1/4 cups of all purpose flour (soft, white, puffy stuff)
• 1 teaspoon baking soda (soft, white, salty stuff, usually in an orange box)
• 2 cups chocolate chips (the justification of baking)

Last Updated Feb. 6th '98

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