My very own Chocolate Chip Cookie production line

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My brother, Dominic, was running a Rugby camp for 9-year-olds this week, so I figured the least I could do was volunteer to make some afternoon tea. Of course, when you have 40 9-year-old boys, ravenous after hours spent running through the bush in the pouring rain, you need to have A LOT OF COOKIES. I believe I made 110 cookies all up and, like a mad woman, I  counted all 995 of the choc chips and divided them equally among the cookies to avoid any arguments between the young'ns over who had the most.

Although I was not present at the camp, I heard via the grape vine that they were devoured greedily by the boys. It is, I must confess, a wickedly good cookie dough. I think it is the salt that makes it so moorish. That cloying after-taste, which lingers at the back of your throat when you eat too much sugar, seems to be absent with the addition of a teaspoon of salt. I'm not sure if there is any truth in the claim that 'a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down', however I'm quite convinced that salt does just that with sugar.

I just had to share with you some photos of my production line; after all, how often do you see 100+ cookies in one place, at the one time?

Click here for the recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookies from Cindy Mushet's 'The Art and Soul of Baking'- you'll find it on page 273