Molasses Memories
My grandmother, Nanny, used to take me to her friends house probably once a month., from the time I was about 3 till I was about 9. This sweet woman owned a little house with a little land on the west end of Long Island. I would sit in the backseat of my grandparents little ford ranger and hope that it would be a day of molasses cookies and gathering eggs. Faye, my grandmothers friend, had a chicken coop with chickens and roosters and a goose. She had a old brown lab named Charlie Brown and a little apple tree in the yard. The first thing i would get to do is gather the eggs because we would need some for our molasses cookies. Then I would feed the chickens and try and get the big goose egg from its nest.
At some point this sweet woman would get out all the ingredients we needed and have me dump each measured amount into a big bowl. Shed stir and roll out the dough and I would use a drinking glass dipped in floor to cut out each cookie. I remember these cookies being huge!! They were fluffy, and thick and had a mild spice flavor.
The other day I decided to make these cookies on my own. I mixed hot water with molasses and baking soda, added flour, brown sugar, egg, spices, butter, and a few secrets to spark the spice flavor. I found out a few key things in making these cookies: 1, use shortening not butter- shortening will let the cookies rise higher and has a much higher melting point so dough will be less sticky, and easier to work with. 2, have extra flour on hand for sticky dough. In the end, I made some very yummy and fluffy molasses cookies.
And with the remaining dough I made a large heart cookie! <3 Molasses cookies from the heart.
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