2/3 Cup Butter or Margarine
2-1/4 Cups (1 lb.) Light Brown Sugar
3 Eggs
2 tsp. Vanilla
1-2 Cups Chocolate Chips
2-1/2 Cups King Arthur Unbleached All Purpose Flour
2-1/2 tsp. Baking Powder
1/2 tsp. Salt
1 Cup Chopped Nuts (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Cream Butter or Margarine and Sugar together until very light.
Add Eggs one at a time, beating thoroughly after each addition.
Blend in vanilla.
Mix dry ingredients together.
Blend butter mixture with flour mixture.
Fold in chips and nuts.
Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet.
Bake for 10 to 12 minutes.

Enter 3 cookies on paper plate. Label with Name and Grange.

Check with your Subordinate W.A. Committee to find out when your Grange’s judging will be held and enter! The first place winners from each Subordinate (Community) Grange will bake again to compete for the top prize at the Connecticut Agricultural Fair in July!