Soft Molasses Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 cup molasses
• 1¾ teaspoons soda
• 1 cup sour milk
• ½ cup shortening, melted
• 2 teaspoons ginger
• 1 teaspoon salt
• Flour

Steps

1. Add soda to molasses and beat thoroughly; add milk, shortening, ginger, salt, and flour. Enough flour must be used to make mixture of right consistency to drop easily from spoon. Let stand several hours in a cold place to thoroughly chill. Toss one-half mixture at a time on slightly floured board and roll lightly to one-fourth inch thickness. Shape with a round cutter, first dipped in flour. Bake on a buttered sheet.

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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.