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Old Fashioned Molasses Cookies Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
4 cups flour
4 tsp soda
2 tsp salt
1 tsp cloves
4 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 egg unbeaten
1 cup molasses
1 cup milk
Directions:
Directions:
Cream shortening and sugar and beat in egg.

Combine molasses and milk

Sift dry ingredients together

Into the creamed shortening, sugar and egg mixture, add the molasses and milk mixture alternately with the dry ingredients

Drop by small spoonful on a lightly greased cookie sheet or parchment paper and bake for 10 minutes in a 375 deg oven.
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
5 dozen
Preparation Time:
Preparation Time:
Prep 15 Cook 10
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
These were the only cookies that I can ever remember my mother baking. I think it must be because we always had sorghum molasses and they were my father’s favorite. The recipe was on the back of a calendar that had pockets for each month.
Odd the things you remember. I know my mom kept that page in the recipe drawer for ages, but at some point wrote it out on a recipe card.

 

 

 

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