Hillary’s Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Hillary for Class President
Chocolate Chip Cookies and Her Eighth Grade Campaign
By Betsy Vandercook
In These Times
May 2, 2008

I first ate cookies at Hillary Rodham’s house on Wisner and Elm in 1960. Were they her now-famous chocolate chip cookies? Perhaps. But whether this is the recipe for the cookies I ate doesn’t matter. The main dish that Hillary served, even back then, was politics. Which brings us to 1960.

We were attending Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High—a brand-new school that was turquoise and beige and glass and looked like a kitchen ad out of House Beautiful. It was there that Hillary came into her political own. She decided to run for class president, and I decided to join her campaign. I would go over to her house and we would drink milk, eat chocolate-chip cookies, think up campaign slogans and draw campaign posters.

She lost to a boy named Dave Kraemer. She later told me that she lost because all the boys in the class—and a few of the girls—believed a girl couldn’t be president. That campaign was our bonding experience—I joined Hillary’s circle. We ate at the same lunch table, and together in the late fall of 1960, we experienced another presidential race—between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon. For all of us, being Republican and Protestant (Hillary and I were both Methodists with dangles of Sunday-school pins to prove it), only one person was qualified to win that election—and he wasn’t Catholic.

But we never would have guessed that 48 years later homemade cookies would reappear as part of another national campaign.

So, here it is, Hillary’s cookie recipe. They are good. And when Barack Obama wins the Democratic nomination, I am going to bake them to celebrate.

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Hillary’s Chocolate Chip Cookies

1½ cups unsifted flour

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. baking soda

1 cup solid vegetable shortening

1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar

½ cup white sugar

1 tsp. vanilla

2 eggs

2 cups rolled oats

1 12-oz. package semisweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease baking sheets.

Combine flour, salt and baking soda.

Beat shortening, sugars and vanilla in large bowl until creamy. Add eggs, beating until light and fluffy.

Gradually beat in flour mixture and rolled oats. Stir in chocolate chips.

Drop well-rounded teaspoonfuls of batter on greased baking sheets. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until golden.

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You might think it upset me that he had decided to run against me but nothing could be further from the truth. He was no competition for me; it was like apples and oranges. I had to work a little harder, that's all, see I believe in the voters; they understand that elections aren't just popularity contests,

It's like my mom says, "The weak are always trying to sabatoge the strong."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rleUPHX8yfM

Use only real butter not the transfat ladened vegetable shortening called for in the recipe.

and its bad for you.

:rofl:

ugh to shortening and thumbs down to oatmeal.

id pass

Horrible, horrible cookie recipe.

...So Bill could "inhale" them :evilgrin:

It makes them soft and grainy too.

Too much sugar...lard...and oatmeal? :puke:

Doesn't that sound a little fishy, considering the topic?

Oh, and teaspoons don't make the right size cookie. You need at least 2 tablespoons.

With the oats and nuts

TOGETHER

you get a complete protein.

It's complete and uttter bullshit that "boys didn't think a girl could be class president"!!! She's fucking DELUSIONAL! My high school was virtually IDENTICAL demographically to hers ... midwestern (Detroit suburb vs Chicago suburb), affluent (mostly white collar and professiona white), and conservative. It was EXACTLY the same era! She's fucking insane!

near Sen. Clinton's home base.
(But we were only lowly south-siders... Sen. Clinton grew up
in a upwardly mobile north side suburb... Don't be fooled by
all the talk about 'working class' if you're a Chicagoan
you know better..)

Our class president was an ambitious blonde named Donna.
All the guys had the hots for her, so ... well?

Donna wasn't so bad. She didn't obliterate her opponant,
she went on a date with him, and he couldn't say anything
bad about her..

Didnt she make a big deal of that? jeezus. Which is it? Did she make cookies or not.

:rofl:

:puke:

Didn't stay home to bake cookies?

Bill woulda been dead 20 years ago.

:hide:

that's just wack.

:)

hmm

Too much sugar...too much lard...