1 cup shortening
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar firmly packed
2 eggs (well beaten)
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 package Nestle semi-sweet chocolate chips (12 ounce)
2 cups chopped pecans (optional)

Cream shortening, sugar and brown sugar together. Add beaten eggs and vanilla and mix. Mix all dry ingredients together and add to first mixture approximately a cup at a time until completely blended. Add chocolate chips and nuts and mix well. Drop generously rounded teaspoon of cookie dough on to ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 350°F for approximately 10 minutes. (Hint: It is better to under bake cookies than to over bake.)

Makes approximately 3-4 dozen cookies.