Old Fashioned Soft & Chewy Molasses Cookies Recipe - 1935 | Glen And Friends Cooking

Old Fashioned Soft & Chewy Molasses Cookies Recipe - Today's Old Cookbook Show recipe comes from a depression era cookbook published in 1935. This molasses spice cookie recipe produces a soft chewy ginger spice cookie with a deep molasses flavour.

Ingredients:
½ cup shortening
½ cup sugar
1 egg
¾ cup molasses
¼ cup milk
2 ¾ cup flour
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp soda
¾ tsp cinnamon
¼ tsp ginger
½ tsp salt

Method:
Cream shortening and sugar together.
Add beaten egg, molasses and milk and mix well.
Sift dry ingredients together and add to the first mixture.
Mix well.
Drop by teaspoons on a greased baking sheet and flatten with the back of a spoon.
Bake in a moderate oven (350ºF) about 12 minutes.
For parties decorate with a sugar frosting.


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