Old Fashioned Molasses Cookies

Molasses Drop Cookies Recipe

Ingredients required
1 cup sugar
2 cups molasses
1 egg
1 tbsp soda
1 cup melted shortening
1 cup hot water
1 tbsp Ginger
5 1/2 cups flour

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Instructions for Molasses Drop Cookies Recipe

Add soda to hot water. Mix all ingredients together. Use bacon grease for shortening. Bake 8 to 10 minutes. Anytime lashes or chocolate is used in a recipe bacon grease may be used.

Molasses Cookies Recipe

Ingredients required
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup molasses
2 1/4 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup water

Preheat oven 375 degrees

Instructions for Molasses Cookies Recipe

Mix in order given. Drop by tablespoon on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8 to 10 minutes. Makes two dozen cookies.

Molasses Oatmeal Cookies Recipe

Ingredients required
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup shortening
2 cups of oatmeal
3 cups flour 1 cup of molasses
1 teaspoons soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt
two eggs

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Instructions for Molasses Oatmeal Cookies Recipe

Combine all ingredients. Beat well, drop by spoonful on greased cookie sheet. Bake until done.

Ginger Crinkles Recipe

Ingredients required
1 cup sugar
2/3 cups vegetable oil
1 egg
1/4 cup of molasses
2 cups sifted flour
1 1/4 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon Ginger

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Instructions for Ginger Crinkles Recipe

Add ingredients in given order and mix well. Chill for 1 hour. Roll into one-inch balls and dip in granulated sugar. Bake 8 to 10 minutes. Makes four dozen.

Enjoy quick and easy recipes from an old cookbook made about fifty years ago from a rural community plus a recipe from the White House, Mrs.Gerald Ford, the First Lady's Strawberry Blitz Torte recipe about 1975. Also a recipe from the Vice Presidents wife, Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller.