Molasses Drop Cookies

(from pinkleminade’s recipe box)

This is a crunchy molasses cookie.

Source: Lucinda Scala Quinn

Categories: Cookies, Dessert

Ingredients

  • 4 Tbsp butter
  • 1 3/4 cup flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp ginger, ground
  • 1/8 tsp clove, ground
  • 1/2 cup light brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup molasses
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 1 egg

Directions

  1. Melt butter.

  2. Mix flour, soda, spices, brown sugar together. Add butter and molasses; then add milk and egg. Stir into a dough.

  3. Drop by spoonfuls into sugar (fine or crystals); then place on cookie sheet; chill about 5 min. and flatten slightly with bottom of glass.

  4. Bake at 375 for about 10-12 min.

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