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Directions:Cream sugar, butter and eggs together.
Add molasses and syrup mixture.
Add soda and boiling water mixture.
Add salt, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg to flour.
Gradually add the flour mixture to the wet mix, adding more flour until dough is not sticky.
Dough rolls well if refrigerated overnight. On a floured surface, roll dough our to about ½ inch, cut cookies in 2½ " circles.
Bake at 325º for approximately 15 minutes.
Cool, ice and decorate. |
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Notes: In putting this recipe on paper for the cookbook, I find myself laughing out loud! This recipe came from my Grandma Scott, and every Christmas when I make it, I think of spending Christmas at Grandma's house and just waiting for her to ask if we wanted a cookie!
The reason I am laughing is because Grandma and Aunt Arda both made these cookies, but of course, as in many cases the recipe was in their heads. So, when I called Aunt Arda for the recipe, and I can remember the day, she dictated it and I wrote it down over the phone! There was no neat list of ingredients and detailed directions, but rather a lot of "about" this much of this or that
ingredient.
I still have the original piece of paper where I wrote the recipe. It's corners are bent and torn and it is covered with stains! When I started to enter the recipe for the cookbook, I realized that I had written it down with the understanding that I would know what to do. So, I actually had to "think" about how to write the directions so someone else could make them!
I also realize how "politically incorrect" the title is, but I'm not apologizing because that's what she called them, and if you knew my Grandma Scott, you would know she meant no malice toward anyone!
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