Real OLD TIME!!! Molasses Cookies!

[norgeway]

Well I finally had time...or rather took time to make these,This Recipe came from Donalds Maternal Grandmother,otherwise known as MaMaw!! Geneva Nance 1905-1989. These were NEVER baked in anything but a wood stove, in fact ,she never cooked on anything but a wood stove, I had to buy groceries for this one,first I had to get real home made molasses, not those old thin excuses you get in the store, then real lard!! They are hard to make, but GOOD!!!

 

[norgeway]

Recipe.

2 cups molasses
1 pound brown sugar...2 1/2 cups
1/2 pint lard melted ...1 cup.
1 TBSP soda
1/2 TBSP Cinnamon
1/2 TBSP cloves
1/2 TBSP ginger
mix well, add flour to make a VERY STIFF DOUGH!!! about 5 cups . Dough must be stiff enough to not be sticky, about like play dough! roll PAPER THIN! I made a few thick for Don to dip in milk, but they are supposed to be about as thin as a cracker when done, bake 350 for about 10 minutes on lightly greased sheets.cool on wire racks.

 

[norgeway]

Rolled out.

I use a HEAVY commercial rolling pin.

 

[norgeway]

These...

Are also called Moravian Cookies around here.

 

[norgeway]

NOW!!!

I have to clean up the mess!!

 

[norgeway]

This is the finished product!!

Stacks of cookies, this is about 1/3 of the dough baked!

 

[norgeway]

Oh Yeah!!

Dont make the mistake I did the first time I tried these, I used Grandmas molasses and Crisco and they were a disaster!! you have to use real lard and real old fashioned molasses, people make them around here so they are not too hard to find.

 

[norgeway]

I just looked at my pictures!!!!!

Look at the second one I posted!! NO ONE WAS STANDING BEHIND THE TABLE WHEN DON TOOK THIS!!!!! I wonder if MaMaw decided to see if I could make her cookies. WEIRD AINT IT!!

 

[norgeway]

The Kitchen Aid...

Is a 1965 model, same as I am!

 

[appnut]

The KitchenAid can't hold a candle to you, you're a far better looking classic in my books.

 

[tlee618]

Hans, I bet those cookies are delicious!! The smell while baking them must fill the whole house with a wonderful aroma. That second picture is really neat. I bet you are right and she is watching!!

 

[circlew]

My favorite cookies

Those look really good. Wish I could reach through the screen and grab a couple!

 

[tolivac]

glad I wasn't there-I would Have DEVOURED those cookies-love those types of cookies.Those are so good -Just cooked and HOT from the oven!!!Since that is "eggless" dough-I have been known to eat the raw cookies too.Guess I will have to warm up my oven and Viking mixer-haven't cooked a batch of those in years.Usually at Christmas and thereabouts bake the Molasses-Ginger cookies.Instead of rolling the dough-formed it into tablespoon sized balls and dipped it in suger-then placed on the greased cookie pan.I also have a recipe for those or similar-that you use eggs.