Hi friends, the week before Christmas is a tricky one for organizing bloggers. At least it is for me because I’m not doing a whole lot of organizing at this point so I don’t expect you are either. Organizing for me right now involves shoving everything into my office and shutting the door real quick. There is just so many other things to get done am I right?! So today I thought would be a good day to share my Granny’s (well actually Great Granny’s) soft ginger cookies recipe. Cookies always make a great quick gift and I’ve even got a free printable gift tag for you to use as well!
PS: I am soooo not a food blogger and did the best I could with the photos. Taking pictures of food is hard y’all!
I found my Granny’s recipe in some old family cookbooks that my mom passed down to me for my birthday last year. There are old newspaper clippings inside dating back to 1916. One recipe for soft ginger cookies showed up multiple times so I wanted to try and recreate them. As you can see I only had a list of ingredients to go by.
I love knowing that this is my Great Granny’s handwriting. I’d like to have a few recipes framed.
I made quite a few batches of these cookies and had a number of taste tasters to get them just right. Unfortunately because I follow the Paleo diet I couldn’t taste them myself but thankfully I had great volunteers 🙂
They were originally called ginger snaps but these were definitely more soft in texture.
Granny’s Soft Ginger Cookies:
- ½ cup butter
- ½ cup lard (or butter)
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt (use 1 teaspoon if using unsalted butter)
- 1 egg
- ½ cup molasses
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ginger (2 if you like a stronger ginger taste)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 3 tablespoons boiling water
- 3 cups flour
- In a bowl or stand mixer combine butter, lard and brown sugar. Blend well.
- Add the egg, molasses and vanilla and then blend again until well mixed.
- Dissolve the baking soda with boiling water and stir into wet mixture.
- In another small bowl combine the flour, salt, cinnamon and ginger. Add it slowly to the wet mixture while beating until smooth.
- Roll into balls and put on a cookie sheet. Flatten with the back of a spoon.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.
- Cookies will be soft when they come out of the oven but will firm up while cooling.
Baked With Love:
To help you with your gift giving, feel free to download my free printable “Baked with Love” gift tags to use to package your cookies up.
Baked with Love Free Printable Gift Tags and Recipe Cards
They add a nice festive touch! Plus if you really want to kick it up a notch there are coordinating recipe cards for you to use as well.
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Merry Christmas everyone!
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Helena Orstem says
Thanks for sharing! I will try it!