Quote Originally Posted by moosmom
A hint from Heloise Ploss...

When you make cookies in big batches, if they start getting a little "stale", put them in a airtight container with a piece of fresh white bread. They'll spring back to life. Once the slice of bread is stale, remove it.

When my brother was in boot camp (Oct-Dec 1988) we learned this trick. We'd bake up a huge batch of cookies and put them in gallon size ziplock bags, then put in a piece of white bread (wrapped loosely in a paper towel). Everyone in my brothers company loved getting those cookies. They were so fresh and soft, and nobody else's family had figured that out yet.