Grandma’s Ginger Cookies (for 3baid)
This is a very soft dough. It is easier to work with if you chill it before rolling, but even then the rolling pin and rolling board should be well floured, and you need to work fast, before the dough gets too soft again.
Preheat the oven to 400°F / 200°C
1 cup molasses (Brer Rabbit Green Label)
1 cup sugar
1 cup hot water
3 teaspoons baking soda
3 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
5 cups flour
Add hot water to molasses, sugar and shortening. When well mixed, and cool, stir in sifted dry ingredients.
Roll out to 3/8″ thick, sprinkle with sugar and cut with cookie cutters. Place on lightly greased cookie sheet.
If you are making gingerbread boys and girls, use raisins or small hard decorations for eyes and buttons, and a small slice of candied cherry for the mouth.
(Grandma said use Brer Rabbit Green Lable Molasses, but here in Kuwait, use whatever molasses you can find! I have seen some honey-molasses that looks like it would make a good gingerbread cookie.
Pop in the oven, bake for 10 minutes – maybe a little longer if your cookies are thick. They should be soft and chewy, but cooked through.
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I ❤ ginger cookies, 3baid, make sure you make enough for all of us 🙂
Aww intlxpatr, you should’ve have 😀
*shouldn’t
yum yum yum we are so bringing back this family tradition this Christmas:) hint hint Seattleites 🙂
I had never seen that I ❤ symbol before, Chika! Very cool!
3baid – I think men who cook are very cool. 🙂
Little Diamond – I think women who cook are very cool, too! YOU and Sporty Diamond can carry on the cookie tradition!
Oh! Oh! Don’t forget to use “red hots” for the buttons!
OK, LD, Seattleites acknowledge the hint…we shall see… 😉
Maybe we can have some waiting in the cookie jar, Little Diamond. Sparkle, wanna help? I’ll make the dough. It will be fun. . . (!)
haha yes yes please do but they might be Grandma’s gingerbricks by the time I arrive on the 21st 🙂
Too funny on the gingerbricks!
Lettuce, I just figured out who you are! TOOOO funny! We call you Big Diamond!
I must not have received the “ginger gene” as I am not a “ginger girl”…I do like other cookies, though! Are Angel Kisses a family recipe, too? Light, sugary, with chocolate chips…yuuummm…Little D, those would DEFINITELY be rock solid by the time you arrive…
Sporty Diamond – I love ginger tea, and ginger in lots of things, but I can’t eat too many of these cookies. For one thing, they are big and puffy! I was thinking they might be freezable. Will have to check with Grandma Diamond!
You can find the Angel Kisses here – I call them meringues. So easy to whip up, and really, so few calories per cookie!
Hi there intlxpatr, any idea where I can buy them ready in Kuwait?
No, sweetie, you can’t buy these. Even in the US, these are the old fashioned ones you have to make yourself. . . sorry!