Great Chocolate Chip Cookies

I like to make cookies to give to my clients for different holidays.  I get cute cellophane bags and put a couple of cookies in each and staple them closed with my business card attached.   So with Halloween on Monday I had to get going today making cookies.   My favorite chocolate chip cookies that everyone loves is a recipe I obtained in the 8th grade.  My friend's sister made theses and sent them to some function.  I recognized right away that these were wonderful cookies and asked for the recipe.  I have been making them ever since even though I have lost touch with my friend, Marcy Kaufman.

Oatmeal, Sugar, Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 c brown sugar

1 c white sugar

1 c shortening

2 eggs

2 c flour

2 c oatmeal

1 t baking powder

1 t baking soda

1 T vanilla

1 t salt

1 lg pkg chocolate chips

Mix first 4 ingredients.  Blend dry ingredients and add to the sugar/shortening mixture. Add the chocolate chips.  Roll into balls, then roll in granulated sugar.  Bake at 350 for 9-10 minutes. 

My Modifications to the recipe--- I use half shortening and half butter and I use half milk chocolate chips and half semi sweet chocolate chip    I use a cookie scoop to put them on the cookie sheets which makes it go pretty fast then I sprinkled them with course sugar, rather than rolling them in sugar as  the directions say.  It works fine either way. 

Also these freeze well after they are baked.
I forgot to add, that when we were in Tenakee someone had eaten all the chocolate chips, so we substituted in trail mix with M&M's, raisins, and nuts.   We did pick through to get more M&M's but the cookies turned out great then also.