Raised Molasses Cookies

Ingredients

• 3 teaspoons soda
• 1.5 cups molasses
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup cold water
• 2 teaspoons ginger
• 1 cup shortening
• 4 teaspoons alum water
• flour to make a mixture the consistency of cake batter

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve soda in molasses, add sugar, water, ginger, salt, and shortening.

2. 2

   Stir thoroughly, then add alum water.

3. 3

   Let stand overnight, then add flour in the morning to make stiff enough to roll out and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook County cook book (1912) by Associated College Women Workers, page 382. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

RAISED MOLASSES COOKIES.— Dissolve 3 teaspoons soda in lyz cups molasses; add 1 cup sugar, 1 cup cold water, 2 tea- spoons ginger, a little salt; add 1 cup shortening and stir veY"y thoroughly, and then add 4 teaspoons alum water; add flour to make a mixture the consistency of cake batter

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