Helpful Hints and Recipes: GRANDMA'S MOLASSES COOKIES

Monday, December 15, 2008

GRANDMA'S MOLASSES COOKIES

1C butter or shortening

2C granulated sugar

2 eggs, beaten

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2C molasses

4C all-purposed flour

2 teaspoons ginger

1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

Granulated sugar for dipping cookies

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Mix butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, and molasses. Sift flour, spices, salt, and baking soda; blend into sugar mixture. Chill dough for several hours.

Roll into 1 inch balls. Dip one side in sugar. Do not grease cookie sheets. Arrange sugar side up on cookie sheets. Do not flatten. Bake at 400 for 10-12 minutes. Transfer to wire racks to cool. Makes about 7 dozen. Weather is still warm. I need to get out and do some yard work while it is still nice. Finally got my Christmas lights working again, what a pain. Later..............

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Chris and I became friends over 20 years ago when we were neighbors in the Philippines. We were living there with our families because of our husbands' jobs with Westinghouse. In fact, we were next door neighbors on the compound that we lived in. After returning Stateside, we were lucky enough to have Westinghouse assign our husbands to the same work site. Our husbands are good friends, also. We enjoy each other and feel fortunate to be blessed with such good, loving friends in our lives.

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