Ginger Snaps

Ingredients

• One cup brown sugar
• two cups molasses
• one large cup butter
• two teaspoonfuls soda
• two teaspoonfuls ginger
• three pints flour

Method

1. 1

   Rub shortening and sugar together into the flour; add enough more flour to roll very smooth, very thin, and bake in a quick oven.

2. 2

   The dough can be kept for days by putting it in the flour barrel under the flour, and bake a few at a time.

3. 3

   The more flour that can be worked in and the smoother they can be rolled, the better and more brittle they will be.

4. 4

   Should be rolled out to wafer-like thinness.

5. 5

   Bake quickly without burning.

6. 6

   They should become perfectly cold before putting aside.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 197. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

GINGER SNAPS. Boil all together the following ingredients: Two cups of brown sugar, two cups of cooking molasses, one cup of shortening, which should be part butter, one large tablespoonful of ginger, one tablespoonful of ground cinnamon, one teaspoonful of cloves; remove from the fire and let it cool. In the meantime, sift four cups of flour and stir part of it into the above mixture. Now dissolve a teaspoonful of soda in a tablespoonful of warm water and beat into this mixture, stir in the remainder of the flour and make stiff enough to roll into long rolls about an inch in diameter, and cut off from the end into half-inch pieces. Place them on well-buttered tins, giving plenty of room to spread. Bake in a moderate oven. Let them cool before taking out of the tins. GINGER COOKIES. One cup sugar, one cup molasses, one cup butter, one egg, one table- spoonful vinegar, one tablespoonful ginger, one teaspoonful soda dissolved in boiling water, mix like cooky dough, rather soft. GINGER SNAPS. One cup brown sugar, two cups molasses, one large cup butter, two tea- spoonfuls soda, two teaspoonfuls ginger, three pints flour

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