I could swear that when I was a kid baking chocolate chip cookies back in the early to mid-1960s, the recipe on the back of Nestlé's semi-sweet morsels called for more flour than I currently see in recipes, and used Crisco instead of butter. Pretty distinct memory since Crisco didn't come in sticks back then, and it was a pain in the back side to measure it out. I also remember that instead of flattening out during baking, the cookies maintained their 'chunky' shape, and were crisp rather than chewy. I have been looking far and wide for that version of chocolate chip cookies and cannot seem to find it anywhere.

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