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Molasses Cookie Recipe
Grandma's Best Cookie Recipes For Molasses Cookies
You are sure to find a great molasses cookie recipe here. These are some of the best recipes for molasses cookies taken from Grandma's dessert recipe collection, and they are all easy to make. Experience the authentic, old-fashioned taste of molasses cookies just like the ones Grandma used to make.
Sometimes, rather than rolling them into the traditional cookie shape, Mom used to form the molasses cookie dough into little balls and coat them with sugar before baking. Delicious.
Molasses Cookie RecipeThese classic cookie recipes are taken from “The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book” by Fannie Merritt Farmer, Principal of the Boston Cooking School, published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, circa 1916.
Old Fashioned Molasses Cookies1 cup molasses, 1/2 cup shortening (butter and lard mixed), 1 tablespoon ginger, 1 tablespoon soda, 2 tablespoons warm milk, 2 cups bread flour. You may also wish to add 1/2 teaspoon salt.
Heat molasses to boiling point, add shortening, ginger, soda dissolved in warm milk, and flour. Proceed as for Ginger Snaps.
Soft Molasses Cookies1 cup molasses, 1-3/4 teaspoons soda, 1 cup sour milk, 1/2 cup shortening melted, 2 teaspoons ginger, 1 teaspoon salt, flour.
Add soda to molasses and beat thoroughly; add milk, shortening, ginger, salt, and flour. Enough flour must be used to make mixture of right consistency to drop easily from spoon. Let stand several hours in a cold place to thoroughly chill. Toss one-half mixture at a time on slightly floured board and roll lightly to one-fourth inch thickness. Shape with a round cutter, first dipped in flour. Bake on a buttered sheet.
Molasses Drop Cakes1 cup molasses, 1/2 cup melted butter, 1 cup sugar, 2 teaspoons soda, 1 cup hot water, 1 egg, 2 teaspoons sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt.
Mix molasses, butter, and sugar. Add soda and beat thoroughly, then add water, egg well beaten, and flour mixed and sifted with ginger and salt. Drop by spoonfuls on a buttered sheet. Bake twelve to fifteen minutes in a hot oven.
Molasses Cookie RecipeThese easy cookie recipes are taken from “The Woman Suffrage Cook Book, Second Edition” published by Mrs. Hattie A. Burr, Boston, in 1890.
Louisa's Molasses CookiesPut into a large coffee cup one teaspoonful of soda, two tablespoonfuls of hot water and three tablespoonfuls of melted butter. Fill the cup with molasses; add a little ginger if liked. Two cups is enough for one baking. Mix soft and bake quickly. --Louisa G. Aldrich
Molasses Cookies (Without Milk or Shortening)One egg, one cup molasses, one-half cup of sugar, one teaspoonful each of salt, soda, and ginger; flour enough to roll easily. This receipt calls for neither milk nor shortening, and makes very nice cookies. Bake in quick oven. --Mrs. Ellie A. Hill
Molasses Cookie RecipeThis simple recipe for molasses cookies is taken from the book “Buckeye Cookery and Practical Housekeeping” published by Buckeye Publishing Company, Minneapolis, in 1877.
Two and a half cups of sugar, half cup molasses, a cup butter, half cup sweet milk, two eggs well beaten, a level teaspoon soda, and flour enough to roll out. --Miss J. O. De Forest, Norwalk
Molasses Cookie RecipeThis homemade cookie recipe is taken from the book “My Pet Recipes Tried and True” contributed by the ladies and friends of St. Andrew’s Church, Quebec, published by Daily Telegraph Printing House, Quebec, in 1900.
Whites and yolks of two eggs (beaten separately), one cup brown sugar, one cup melted lard and butter, one cup New Orleans molasses, one dessert spoon of ginger, one dessert-spoon soda, four tablespoons boiling water, flour to stiffen. Do not roll too thin. --Mrs. C. E. Martin
Choose a molasses cookie recipe from the vintage recipes above and bake an old fashioned treat for your family.
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