Grandma’s Old-Fashioned Molasses Cookies
This recipe is from an old cookbook -- I put my own recipe notes next to the ingredients listed...
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup shortening you could use this palm shortening, no-flavor coconut oil, or softened butter — pastured butter is best
- 1 cup sugar Use any natural sugar, I use palm sugar, and you could probably easily cut this amount a bit, but I didn't want to mess with the recipe the first time I made these.
- 1 egg pastured eggs are best
- 1/4 cup molasses
- 2 1/4 cups flour my favorite now is einkorn flour or you could also use a combination of sprouted flour, spelt flour, or whatever you like to use.
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- Cane sugar for the tops of the cookies
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350*. Mix butter, sugar, egg and molasses. (I used my Bosch because I made 4 batches at once!) Stir the dry ingredients together, and then mix those in. Roll dough into about 1″ balls, then roll in some sugar and place on a buttered stainless steel baking pan about 2″ apart — if you still have non-stick pans, line them with parchment paper. Bake about 9-11 minutes, depending on your oven and how crispy you like them. We like them chewy in the middle, so we only did about 9 minutes.