Many cookies are alike

There's a common basic recipe for many cookies. You'll find it as the core of chocolate chip and so many others. Start with something between 2 and 3 cups of flour and a teaspoon each of baking soda and salt, along with a cup of butter and somewhere between 3/4 and 1 cup of brown sugar with a similar amount of white sugar. A bit of vanilla, a couple of eggs. That's it, basically.

Then start adding other ingredients and adjusting the ratios of the core ingredients as you see fit, depending on how you want the cookie to come out.

Bake for 10-12 minutes, depending on your oven and the altitude.