plate of cookies surrounded by old copies of the Joy of Cooking

Discover these hauntingly great chocolate chip cookies ‘cockaigne’

I was on a road trip with my cousin, and came into a baggie of chocolate chip cookies made by one of her friends that were so toasty and chewy they haunted me until I tracked down the friend and asked for the recipe. She told me it came from an old edition of “Joy of Cooking” and was called “Chocolate Chip Cookies Cockaigne.”