Molasses Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup molasses
• ½ cup shortening, butter and lard mixed
• 2½ cups bread flour
• 1 tablespoon ginger
• 1 tablespoon soda
• 2 tablespoons warm milk
• 1 teaspoon salt

Steps

1. Heat molasses to boiling-point, add shortening, ginger, soda dissolved in warm milk, salt, and flour. Proceed as for Ginger Snaps.

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From The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910), now in the public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg.