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Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies

In the 1930s, Ruth Wakefield, the inventor of the chocolate chip cookie, ran the Toll House Inn, a popular restaurant in eastern Massachusetts, with her husband. Using an ice pick, Wakefield broke a semisweet chocolate bar into little bits, mixed them into brown-sugar dough, and the chocolate chip cookie was born. In 1939, she sold Nestlé the rights to reproduce her recipe on its packages (reportedly for only $1) and was hired to write recipes for the company, which supposedly supplied her with free chocolate for life.

2 ¼  cups all-purpose flour
1  teaspoon baking soda
1  teaspoon salt
1  cup butter (2 sticks), softened
¾  cup granulated sugar
¾  cup packed brown sugar
1  teaspoon vanilla extract
2  large eggs
2  cups/12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips
1  cup chopped nuts (optional)

Heat oven to 375. Combine flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in large mixing bowl until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts, if using. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheets. 
