If you have ever stepped foot in my bakery during the fall and Christmas season, you will find the most delicious soft Molasses cookies. They were a top seller in November and December.
Molasses brings to my mind Fall…… Autumn. But, in reality, it is a great replacement for refined sugar. It is high in iron and calcium. It is a by-product of refined sugar so therefore it contains all the natural benefits of cane. It helps hold moisture in breads and is much sweeter than white sugar which means you use less.
And it has been around forever….. like colonial times.
So here’s a recipe I found in Granny’s 1946 Grandma’s Old Fashioned Molasses recipe book. Yes, 1946. I just love these old booklets……
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