Ginger Cookies

Ingredients

• 2 cups molasses
• 1 cup butter
• 2 teaspoons soda
• 1 cup sour milk
• 2 teaspoons ginger
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon

Method

1. 1

   Boil the butter and molasses five minutes.

2. 2

   Dissolve the soda just half in molasses, and half in sour milk.

3. 3

   Mix stiff enough to roll.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Queen Cook Book: A Careful Compilation of Recipes and Practical ... (1895) by William Hart Boyd, page 80. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Ginger Cookies. 2 cups molasses i cup butter 2 teaspoons soda i cup sour milk 2 teaspoons ginger 2 teaspoons cinnamon Boil the butter and molasses five minutes. Dis- solve the soda just half in molasses, and half in sour milk. Mix stiff enough to roll. Ginger Cookies. I cup brown sugar ^ i quart N. O. molasses 1 5i cups butter 4 even tablespoons ginger I tablespoon cinnamon i teaspoon cloves Cream the sugar and butter, boil the molasses five minutes, then add a large teaspoon of soda, put all in the center of flour and mix with hand; do not knead it, but roll out and cut for cookies. Bake in a moder- ately quick oven. The Queen Cook Book 211 Chocolate and Cocoanut Jumbles. 1 cup butter

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