All This And Toll House Too!

This is for Vintage Thingies Thursday. The thingies from me are pretty much going to be vintage ads (from my vintage magazines and ephemera collection) and cookbook stuff, that’s mostly what I have got for you. Anything else will be the exception that proves the rule, and all that.

Oh, and this is also for National Chocolate Chip Day. I couldn’t miss National Chocolate Chip Day! You see, I was looking up all the food holidays ever since I found out about Fruit Cocktail Day, and lo and behold, I was right on time for the chocolate chips.

This is the original recipe, as found in Ruth Wakefield’s Toll House Tried and True Recipes (orig. pub. 1936, this is the 1940 reprint), a lovely book that is extra-special to me because it was my grandmother’s and has her pencilled annotations. She didn’t write anything about these, though:

TOLL HOUSE CHOCOLATE CRUNCH COOKIES

Cream 1 cup butter,
Add 3/4 cup brown sugar,
3/4 cup granulated sugar and
2 eggs beaten whole. Dissolve
1 tsp soda in 1 tsp hot water, and mix alternatively with
2 1/4 cups flour sifted with 1 tsp salt.

Lastly add 1 cup chopped nuts and
2 bars (7-oz._ Nestles yellow label chocolate, semi-sweet, which has been cut in pieces the size of a pea.

Flavor with 1 tsp vanilla and drop half teaspoons on a greased cookie sheet. Bake 10-12 minutes in 375 degree oven. makes 100 cookies.

 

Brisk Is One Way Of Putting It

Mr. Coffee Nerves needs another villain for the tea concession – except the rules are inverted over here in Tea World. With tea, the more caffeine (or – something) in it, the better!

Oh, yes, thanks, I would LOVE some of that Lipton’s tea – it must have double the normal amount of caffeine! Or something else that “brisk flavor’ is a code word for.  Because that girl is halfway to Jupiter, no doubt about it. And after that date, too!

Peggy, I do have a few suggestions for you – now that the Lipton’s has invigorated my brain. One, I would try a different outfit for hiking. I recommend running shoes, soft athletic trousers, a T shirt and a hoodie. Works for me. I realize that it is 1950-something and you may not have access to all this modern stuff. But I’ll bet you have some Keds and pedal-pushers, right? Because that outfit is ridiculous.

But maybe you were actually expecting Phil there to take you out to a tea dance or for cocktails (not fruit cocktail, I hope!).

That’s my other piece of unsolicited advice (so much fun to give, unsolicited advice!) – I’d lose Phil.  I believe the name is misspelled – it should be Pill -  and that’s a nice word for what he is! He looks a little like Archie Andrews, maybe they are cousins; that same maniacally cheery, oblivious energy, the same red hair and little sweater vests (Archie did wear sweater vests, didn’t he? I can’t be bothered to check in the Archie Archives upstairs, please feel free to elucidate in the comments).

Phil only notices that you’re not having fun when you’re on the verge of fainting right off the mountain top. Then he whines about you being too tired to meet up with Susie and Ben (who were not out hiking, I bet).

Peggy acts out Lipton Tea during the charades (boy, these are some fun dates she is having). She looks dangerously crazed. She is still wearing that red dress from the hike, too.

I see that Peggy went right back to hiking though – and in the same outfit, in the last picture. That’s what you get, giving unsolicited advice to a cartoon. They really can’t take it in, you see.