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Great Grandma Whatman's Currant Cookies Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
½ c. margarine
½ c. Crisco shortening
1½ c. sugar
½ c. molasses
3 eggs
5 c. flour
1 c. finely chopped walnuts
2 c. currents

Spices
2 tsp. ground ginger
2 tsp. all spice
2 tsp. nutmeg
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. ground cloves
1 tbsp. baking soda
1 tbsp. baking powder
pinch of salt
Directions:
Directions:
Cream the butter, Crisco, sugar, and molasses. Add eggs and mix well.

Next add all spices with flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt on a piece of wax paper. Then add flour mixture to creamed ingredients and mix well. Finally add walnuts and currents to mixture.

Divide dough into about 4-5 parts, wrap dough individually in wax paper and chill for at least one hour, or longer in refrigerator. i sometimes chill it overnight. When I do it needs to warm up some before proceeding.

Roll dough very thin, to about ¼ inch thick, on a floured board. Cut out cookies with a three and a half to four-inch round cookie cutter. Sprinkle the top of cookie dough with sugar before baking.

Place cutouts on a greased cookie sheet and bake in a 350 º oven, 8-10 minutes. Remove from cookie sheet and cool them on a cookie rack or paper towel. Store in glass jar with tight seal so they can stay crisp.
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
30-40
Preparation Time:
Preparation Time:
30 minutes
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
Ken and my favorite cookie at Christmas time, or any time of the year. My Grandmother Whatman's recipe from England where she lived when growing up. Then came to the USA when she was older.



 

 

 

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