[recipe] Large Soft Molasses Cookies

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This is an old recipe that I saved from my mother's

recipe card file box. They were a favorite of mine growing

up. As far as cookies go these are rather healthy.

Molasses is a source of calcium and iron. Eating

just one tablespoon will give you 4% of your daily

calcium needs and up to 8% of your iron, which isn't

so bad considering it is a " sweetener " .

 

Anyway, this recipe is one I consider a bit fussier

than most and at the same time it has a charming

" old fashioned " quality that makes it well worth the

extra effort. Enjoy!

 

Large Soft Molasses Cookies

 

 

Sift these ingredients together well. Preheat oven to

400 degrees.

 

2 1/4 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp ginger

1 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp salt

 

Dissolve these together:

 

2 tsp baking soda

2 tsp hot water

 

With a mixer beat these together in a bowl:

 

1/2 cup vegetable shortening

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup molasses

1 egg

 

Add the earlier flour mixture alternately with:

 

6 Tbs cold water

 

Then stir in the baking soda mixture until well combined.

Drop on greased cookie sheets by rounded tablespoonsful,

about 2 inches apart.

Bake 8 to 10 minutes. [i prefer them slightly undercooked]

Yield: about 2 dozen

 

~ PT ~

 

Learn to be pleased with everything:

with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others;

with poverty, for not having much to care for, and

with obscurity, for being unenvied.

~ Plutarch