Old Fashioned Ginger Cakes
"These have been around for a long time. I first tried them at the New Boston Fair near Springfield, OH, which takes place 200 years in the past. They are wonderful."
- Ready In:
- 29mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
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20 cakes
ingredients
- 118.29 ml molasses
- 59.14 ml butter
- 473.18 ml flour
- 7.39 ml ginger
- 4.92 ml baking soda
- 59.14 ml boiling water
- 2.46 ml salt
- 2.46 ml cinnamon
directions
- Preheat oven to 350. Sift together the flour, salt, ginger, and cinnamon. Stir the soda into the molasses. Melt the butter in the boiling water. Turn both wet mixtures into a bowl and stir in the flour mixture. Add more flour if needed, but keep the dough as soft as can be handled. Drop by teaspoonfuls unto an greased cookie sheet.
- Bake until just turning brown at the edges. This recipe will make about twenty cakes.
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Reviews
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Fantastic! I love the fact that these cookies contain no eggs or milk and that the butter is easily replaced with oil, making them vegan. I used tablespoons to drop the batter and got 29 cakes. Also, I put the soda in too early and they deflated a little! So maybe it would be useful to be careful about that. I used Blackstrap molasses so I upped the spices to adjust to it's powerful taste. I thought that there was a little too much salt and soda (I usually end up halving those in every sweet item I bake anyway, so that might be just me). Overall an excellent recipe!
