I made the Rolled Oats Cookies the other day, they kind of tasted like breakfast. I also didn't have a meat chopper to get the real authentic, 1918 feel.
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Sunday, November 29, 2015
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Monday, September 28, 2015
Melasse (Molasses) Cookies
Molasses Cookies
1 cup shortening
2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup sugar
½ teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 cup molasses
4 (?) teaspoon baking soda (I used 2)
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoon ginger
2 cups flour (I used 4 and 2/3 cups)
1 cup sour milk (buttermilk?)
Cream shortening with sugar. Add molasses. Sift 2 cups of the flour with the dry ingredients. Pour the milk over the flour. Form balls. Sprinkle a little sugar on top. Cook for 10 minutes. Makes 5 dozen.
This batter was WAY too watery, as is. In looking at other recipes for molasses cookies, I think nana's proportions of liquids to solids is way off. There's no way you can form her batter into balls. Other recipes seem to call for only 1/4 cup of molasses (this one calls for 1 cup). So, I added an additional 2.66 cups of (unsifted) flour until the batter reached a consistency that could hold its shape. Wet your hands to form balls with the dough. Or just plop a tablespoon of dough on a cookie sheet for each cookie, using a wet finger to get the dough off the spoon. I baked for 12 minutes.
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| Hanky is my co-author. |
This batter was WAY too watery, as is. In looking at other recipes for molasses cookies, I think nana's proportions of liquids to solids is way off. There's no way you can form her batter into balls. Other recipes seem to call for only 1/4 cup of molasses (this one calls for 1 cup). So, I added an additional 2.66 cups of (unsifted) flour until the batter reached a consistency that could hold its shape. Wet your hands to form balls with the dough. Or just plop a tablespoon of dough on a cookie sheet for each cookie, using a wet finger to get the dough off the spoon. I baked for 12 minutes.
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| So many spices! |
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| This is what happened to three "cookies" I tried to spatula off the tray with my first batch, before adding more flour. |
Ice Box Cookies
This recipe for Ice Box Cookies starts in English, switches to French for a few words, and then returns to English! I made these already and cut up and served one of the 2.5 logs of dough to my coworkers. I think tomorrow, I'm going to try baking these cookies after letting the frozen log soften enough to slice. They tasted like eating sugar cookie dough, but with nuts & brown sugar.
Peanut Drop Cookies
More dessert recipes!
In fact, most of the recipes in Nana's cookbooks are for dessert items. I'm guessing she did this in light of the fact that portions matter a bit more in baking than regular cooking, because science. Recipes below.
Science happening.
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