Our 8th Grade angels!

On Friday May 18 we were lucky to have 17 eighth graders plus their advisors, Roxy Jahnke and Diane Armbrust at our home for their community service day. These young people have restored my faith in the next generation! My porch windows shine. They also stained our front porch and steps, mowed, trimmed and raked our yard, planted and placed our window boxes, cleaned my flower beds, planted flowers, spread mulch, carried large pots of geraniums out and hung plants in our front porch plus carried our TV to our front porch! We have already signed up for help next year. They were a huge help as Pa Lloyd recently had shoulder surgery we simply aren’t able to physically do what we used to do!  I recommend this service to anyone who needs help. They are always looking for people to help every spring, watch for the notice in the paper in the spring. 
Today I am sharing the recipe for the chocolate chip cookies I made for this crew, the 4 tsp. of cream of tartar and 2 tsp. of soda is the right amount and shortening like crisco seems to work better than butter in these cookies!
 
Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup oil
1 cup shortening
2 eggs
4 tsp. cream of tartar
2 tsp. soda
1 tsp. salt
4 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp. vanilla
12 oz. chocolate chips
1/2 cup chopped nuts ( optional)
 
Cream sugars, oil and shortening together. Mix in eggs and vanilla. Add cream of tartar, soda, salt and flour. Add chocolate chips . Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes on ungreased cookie sheet, I use parchment lined cookie sheets. This recipe came from Becky Tonne.
 
Have a great week