Old Sturbridge Village Cookbook

These are strange Gingerbread Cookies

These are so simple! Bake them if you want to remember how lucky we are for sugar and butter!

This cookie recipe from the Old Sturbridge Village Cookbook can add a bit of early-American tradition to your kitchen.

... "Take a teacupful of molasses, a teaspoonful of saleratus dissolved in half a cup of boiling water, a teaspoonful of ginger, and flour to make it hard enough to roll. Bake it five minutes."

1/3 cup boiling water 1 tsp. baking soda 3/4 cup molasses 1 tsp. ginger 2-1/4 cups sifted whole-wheat flour

Modern Method: 1. Pour boiling water into a large mixing bowl and add baking soda, then molasses. When mixed, add ginger. 2. Add flour mix well and refrigerate for 15 minutes. When chilled roll out the dough and cut your favorite cookie cutter shapes and bake on baking stone or cast iron skillet for 8 minutes at preheated 350 degree F oven.