Ginger Cookies

Ingredients

• one-half cup butter
• one cup brown sugar
• one cup molasses
• one cup sour milk
• one teaspoon ginger
• one-half teaspoon cinnamon
• one-half teaspoon nutmeg
• one egg
• one quart flour
• one teaspoon saleratus

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients together and bake in cups.

2. 2

   Very nice hot for tea.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mother Hubbard's cupboard (1887), page 21. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

GINGER COOKIES. One cup molasses, one-half cup lard, one-half cup boiling water, one teaspoon soda, one teaspoon ginger, a little salt, flour to roll out. SEED COOKIES. Two small cups of sugar, one cup butter, one-half cup sweet milk, one egg, two teaspoons baking powder, caraway seed. Mix very soft, roll out, cut in shapes ; sprinkle sugar over the top and bake. Mrs. G*> Gould. MOLASSES COOKIES. One cup butter, one cup brown sugar, one cup New Orleans molasses, three eggs, three even teaspoons soda, two small teaspoons ginger. Stir butter and sugar together ; then add the other ingredients, with flour enough to make a soft dough. Roll thick, cut, and bake in a quick oven. Mrs. George F. Hurd. GINGER COOKIES. One-half cup butter, one cup brown sugar, one cup mo- lasses, one cup sour milk, one teaspoon ginger, one-half tea- spoon cinnamon, one-half teaspoon nutmeg, one egg, one quart flour, one teaspoon saleratus

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