For many years I would only use the "original" Chocolate Chip Cookie
recipe on the Nestle's semi-sweet chocolate chip package, and thought
they were near perfect. However, the original recipe called for 1/4 tsp,
water and I don't recall it using 1 cup of all butter, and the cookies
were thicker and chewy, but I used 1 cup of Crisco shortening in place
of butter, as found that made them flat and crisp, and I don't like thin
crisp cookies.

Over the years I have tried other recipes, that said they were "the
best". Some used half butter and half shortening, and some used brown
AND white sugar both. I was pleased with them the day I baked them, as
seemed chewy and exactly what I wanted, but then after I stored them in
a airtight container (usually Tupperware) they would get soft and break,
and no longer chewy and solid. I get one I think is the "perfect one"
only to be disappointed after they sit awhile.

If you have a recipe you think I might be looking for, please post it
here...thanks! It's my hubby's favorite cookie, although it has never
been mine. Oatmeal Raisin are my favorite cookies, or a soft (but firm)
raisin spice cookie.

Judy