Old Fashioned Molasses Cookies Cakes & Cookies
4 1/2 to 4 3/4 cups flour
2 tsp. ginger
2 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. cloves 		1/2 tsp. nutmeg
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup butter or margerine
1 cup molasses
1/4 to 1/2 cup hot water

Sift flour,spices,sugar,soda and salt together. Add butter to the dry ingredients by cutting in with a pastry blender or cut it in with two knives.(like preparing pie crust)

Add molasses and hot water (not too runny). Mix thoroughly.

Preheat oven to 350F-375F. Drop on ungreased cooky sheet by the spoonful and bake for about 12 minutes.

Back