Cream butter and sugars well. Add eggs and vanilla. Sift dry ingredients together and add to sugar-egg mixture. Mix well. Add chips and nuts and stir. Drop from teaspoon onto ungreased cookie sheets. When I put the cookie dough on the sheets I flatten them slightly, so they will all bake evenly. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.

* If use 1/2 cup shortening and 1/2 cup butter the cookies will cook crisper.

** Can use walnuts, but pecans taste better.

Almost everyone that has tried these cookies think I should go into the baking business on these cookies alone. My wife has shipped these to me to ease my homesickness when I travelled, to ease the separation from home.