Name: Old-Fashioned Molasses Cookies
Yield: Makes about 36 cookies, depending on the size cutter used
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: ⅓ cup sugar; 12 tablespoons (1½ sticks) unsalted butter, softened; 3 cups all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon salt; ½ teaspoon ground cloves; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1 teaspoon ground ginger; 1 teaspoon baking soda; ⅔ cup molasses

Preparation info

Makes about
36
cookies, depending on the size cutter used

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cookies Unlimited

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2000

About

These are one of the few American cookies I remember my maternal grandmother, Clotilda Lo Conte, baking when I was a child. In fact, I still have the tattered 1930s molasses company recipe pamphlet from which she got the recipe.

These are a little less delicate than the Gingerbread People, but for all practical purposes the recipes may be used interchangeably.