Chocolate Chip Cookies

Here is the one and only recipe I use for chocolate chip cookies.  It is the best recipe I've found.  It makes a million cookies, even after I eat half of the dough.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 c. shortening
1 c. margarine
1 cup granulated sugar
2 cups brown sugar, packed
2 eggs
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp vanilla
4-5 cups flour (depending on how the dough feels)
1 pkg chocolate chips

Cream shortening, margarine, and sugars together.  Add the eggs, one at a time.  Add the vanilla.  Add dry ingredients.  With the flour, I usually end up needing about 4 1/3 cups but sometimes I need a little more or less.  The dough shouldn't be crumbly or runny.  It needs to be thick enough to stay in a shape but not so thick that it crumbles to pieces.  Add in the chocolate chips.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Drop the cookie dough on a cookie sheet (no need to grease it because of the copious amounts of shortening and margarine in the dough...)  Make them as big or small as you like.  I use a cookie scoop that is about 2 Tbsp per cookie.  Bake for about 8 minutes, give or take.  Do not let them over bake.  Take them out before they get brown all around.  Let them cool for a minute and then move them to the counter or a wire rack, if you feel the need to be fancy.