Spice Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup molasses
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1½ tablespoons butter
- 1½ tablespoons lard
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 2 cups flour
- ½ teaspoon soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon clove
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
Steps
- Heat molasses to boiling-point. Add sugar, shortening, and milk. Mix and sift dry ingredients, and add to first mixture. Chill thoroughly, and proceed as with Ginger Snaps.
More recipes with molasses, butter, shortening, milk, flour, baking soda, cloves, cinnamon or nutmeg
From The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910), now in the public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg.