I am a fan of molasses cookies, just like my father. This is a recipe for soft molasses cookies that Grandma Danehy used to make. I made them for a family reunion and Anne commented that they were too small, I guess Grandma Danehy used to make them big. My mother always complains that I make cookies too big - guess I got it from my Dad's side.
2 cups molasses (NOT blackstrap)
13 T crisco
4 1/2 cup flour
3 t baking soda
1 t dried ginger
1 t salt
10 T warm water
Cream the crisco and molasses
Mix the dry ingredients and add them to the crisco and molasses
Mix in the water
Roll into balls, place on ungreased cookie sheet (they will spread quite a bit)
bake at 325 for 15 min
Thanks for putting this blog together Katie!
Teri
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Do you remember the cookie jar she kept them in? Maybe you were too little. That, and the silver candy dish were first places I would go when we went to visit Grammy. There were the buttermilk cookies in there too. The soft brown and tan cookies would sometimes stick together- those were the best. I wonder if we could make a molasses/buttermilk swirl cookie?
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