Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:
- 3/4 c. shortening (butter flavored Crisco)
- 1 1/4 c. firmly packed brown sugar
- 2 Tbsp. milk
- 1 Tbsp. vanilla
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 3/4 c. all-purpose flour
- 3/4 tsp. baking soda
- 1 c. chocolate chips
- 1 c. pecans or walnuts (finely ground)

Directions:
- Cream together
- first
- 5 ingredients.
- Mix flour, salt, sugar and soda together.
- Add to sugar mixture gradually.
- Mix in chips and
- nuts.
- Drop
- by teaspoonfuls on ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake at
- 375°
- for
- 10
- minutes
- for chewy cookies, 13 minutes for crisp cookies.
- Makes 3 1/2 to 4 dozen.