Recipe excerpt from:
A Sweet Year
by Joan Nathan
Golda Meir was born in Kiev, Ukraine, and came to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at eighteen. She later decided to live on a kibbutz in Israel, where she eventually became the prime minister and a heroine to women around the world. Even while she led her country, she entertained friends and visitors in her simple kitchen. One of her favorite foods, linking America and Israel, was chocolate chip cookies, which she varied by adding Jaffa orange juice to the classic recipe she had learned in Wisconsin.
Ingredients
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, vegan spread, or coconut oil
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup firmly packed light-brown sugar
- 1¾ cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons orange juice
- 12 ounces bittersweet chocolate chips
Equipment
- Measuring cups
- Measuring spoons
- Mixing bowls
- Wooden spoon
- Stand mixer
- 2 baking sheets
- Parchment paper
- Pancake turner
- Cooling rack
Adult: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, and cover two baking sheets with parchment paper.
Child with Adult: Using a wooden spoon or a stand mixer, cream together the butter, vegan spread, or coconut oil and the two sugars.
Child: In another bowl, mix the flour, baking soda, and salt. Add the flour mixture to the butter and sugar, stir in the eggs and orange juice, and beat or mix until everything is smooth and well combined. (If you beat by hand, take turns at it—it’s fun.) Stir in the chocolate chips.
Child: Drop the dough by tablespoonsful onto the baking sheets, and flatten them slightly with your palm. Keep them about 3 inches apart.
Adult: Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, or until the cookies are golden. Remove them from the oven, and let them sit a few minutes to cool slightly.
Child: When they’re ready, transfer with a pancake turner to a rack to cool.
From A Sweet Year by Joan Nathan. Copyright © 2024 by Joan Nathan. Excerpted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.