Molasses cookies Jeanne

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Hi Jeanne,

 

This is my favorite molasses cookie. From Mollie Katzen's Still Life With

Menu Cookbook.

 

Mrs. Buerschaper's Molasses Crinkles

 

1/2 cup butter or margarine

1/4 cup blackstrap molasses

1 cup sugar

1 egg or substitute

1/4 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon allspice

1 teaspoon ground ginger

2 cups unbleached white flour

1 to 2 tablespoons additional sugar

 

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a cookie sheet.

2. Melt the butter or margarine over low heat. Transfer to a medium sized

mixing bowl.

3. Beat in the molasses and 1 cup sugar. Beat the egg or substitute by

itself in a small bowl first, then beat this into the molasses mixture.

4. Sift together the dry ingredients (except the additional sugar). Then add

them to the wet mixture, stirring until well combined.

5. Use your hands (flour them if necessary) to form 1 1/2 " balls of dough.

Place the additional 1 to 2 tablespoons of sugar on a small plate and roll each

ball in the sugar before arranging on the cookie sheet. (This coating provides

the crinkle factor.)

6. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, until firm to the touch. Cool on a rack.

 

Jennifer

 

treazure noname <treazured wrote:

About thirty years ago I bought a cookie magazine and it had a recipe

for sunflower seed cookies. They were very thin, sweet and wonderful. I believe

I rolled them in a cylinder and sliced. I've tried other similar recipes but

none have been quite right. The other cookie, a molasses cookie, was my

Grandmother's specialty, and was very thin (not as thin as the lace cookie).

Pepperidge Farm used to make one that was exactly like hers but they

discontinued it, despite me trying to buy every bag they made.

 

Want cookies. Really want cookies. Lotsa cookies. Crunchy cookies.

 

Please help!!

 

Jeanne, jonesing for cookies in Georgia.

 

 

 

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Oh yay, oh yah, gonna make lots of cookies tomorrow!!! That is just like my

grandmother made them, balls, rolled in sugar and smushed. Cross your fingers

that the high sitting over Georgia goes out to sea so the rain can come in. Need

cookies. Must have cookies. Thank you thank you!!! Jeanne in Georgia

 

 

 

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