Party Line Potato Chip Cookies
This mid-century cookie recipe was overheard by my eavesdropping great-grandmother, Mabel Studt. She would often listen in on neighbor’s conversations over the party line telephone, hushing up her grandkids so she could hear the hot gossip from the next farm over. And also, get some good recipes.
These cookies bake up thin, crispy, and are hard to stop eating once you start. Thanks, my great-grandmother’s neighbors from the past!
I’ve updated this recipe to use butter instead of “oleo” (margarine), and added detailed instructions including a freezing step, which isn’t entirely necessary (but help with the spreading).
Otherwise the recipe is exactly the same as the original, which was lovingly typed up in the mid-1990s by my Aunt Brenda.
Potato Chip Cookies
Yield: About three dozen 3″ cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 each eggs, room temp
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/2 cups lightly crushed potato chips If using a mixer, don’t crush too much beforehand. The mixer will do some crushing for you.
- 1 cup chopped nuts I used peanuts, and recommend them!
Instructions
- In medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
- Using the paddle of a stand mixer, or the beaters of hand mixer, cream together the butter, white sugar and brown sugar until light.
- Add eggs to creamed mixture one at a time.
- Add flour mix to creamed mixture. Mix thoroughly, but be careful not to overmix.
- Add crushed potato chips & nuts (if using). Stir just until combined, being cautious to not break up the chips too much.
- Portion cookie dough into mounded domes, about 1” across. Freeze.
- Once frozen, and you’re feeling ready to eat the cookies, preheat oven to 350 degrees, and line a baking sheet with parchment. Put frozen cookies on pan. And these guys are going to spread quite a bit, so give them plenty of space.
- Bake for 7 minutes, rotate, and bake 7 more minutes.If you like a crispier cookie, leave in for a few more minutes.Let cookies cool on a wire rack before eating. Enjoy!
