The Daring to Date Again Chocolate Chip Cookie

2 cups plus 1 tab. of flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 ½ tsp. salt

2 sticks of unsalted butter
1.5 cups of dark brown sugar
2 eggs
Grated rind of one orange
1.5 teaspoons of vanilla extract

1 24 ounce bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips
[walnuts to taste]
2 tablespoons of a liquid mixture (you choose the amounts) of whiskey and water
[Chopped walnuts to taste]

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1. Sift the flour, then measure, add baking soda and salt and sift again. Put aside.

2. Cream butter, add brown sugar, then beat in eggs one at a time. Mix in the orange rind and vanilla.

3. Add the dry ingredients to the butter/brown sugar/eggs, then the chocolate chips and walnuts, if you like walnuts in your cookie.

4. Add whiskey.

5. Bake whatever size cookie you like on an ungreased cookie sheet for 9-11 minutes at 375 degrees. Cool, and eat.