Granny's Favorite Chewy Ginger Cookies
Oh, snap! Who doesn't love ginger snaps, particularly when those molasses-filled treats are soft and chewy?
Try this tasty and traditional cookie recipe on your own family, and you will discover why I begged my grandmother to write it down for me years ago. I still have the recipe card, penned special cookie treats.
Granny's Favorite Chewy Ginger Cookies
First, gather these ingredients for your Granny's Favorite Chewy Ginger Cookies:
1 cup light brown sugar, packed firmly
'¾ cup vegetable shortening (Granny used lard, but shortening is better.)
'¼ cup blackstrap molasses
1 egg
2 '½ cups plain flour, unsifted
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon cloves (ground)
1 teaspoon cinnamon (ground)
1 teaspoon ginger (ground)
'½ teaspoon salt
White granulated sugar
Follow these simple instructions to make and bake Granny's Favorite Chewy Ginger Cookies.
In a large mixing bowl, blend light brown sugar, vegetable shortening and blackstrap molasses. Beat well, until ingredients are well blended. Add egg, and mix thoroughly. (An electric mixer works best.)
Combine dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, cloves, cinnamon, ginger and salt) in a second bowl. Add the dry mixture to the wet one, and blend completely at low speed.
Cover the cookie dough tightly, and chill it in the refrigerator for at least one hour.
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees (F).
Pour white granulated sugar onto a large plate or flat soup bowl.
Use clean, dry hands to roll the Granny's Favorite Chewy Ginger Cookie dough into golf ball-sized mounds. Roll these in the white granulated sugar, and place them on cool ungreased non-stick baking sheets.
Bake Granny's Favorite Chewy Ginger Cookies for 10 minutes at 375 degrees (F) until cookies are no longer moist, shiny and gooey. Allow cookies to set for one to two minutes on baking sheet before removing them to a counter or baking rack to cool.
This recipe bakes three to four dozen Granny's Favorite Chewy Ginger Cookies, which are never enough, as they tend to be first picks.
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2 Comments
Post a CommentDon't know a lot of people who really like ginger cookies, but I love them!
Thanks for the recipe and look wonderful!