Desserts
New England Lumberjack Cookies
By Yankee Magazine|Apr 21 2002|
Yield:
4 dozen cookiesIngredients
1 cup sugar
1 cup shortening
1 cup dark molasses
2 eggs
4 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon ginger
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Cream together the sugar and shortening. Add molasses and eggs. Mix well. Sift together the dry ingredients and stir in. Put 1/4 cup sugar in a small bowl. Dip fingers into the sugar, then pinch off a piece of dough and roll into a 1-1/2-inch ball. Place dough balls on greased cookie sheet about 3 inches apart. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes. The dough will keep for a week or more in the refrigerator.
Actually, my family has been making these cookies for thirty years, and will always make them! Every time we bring them anywhere we are asked for the recipe (or to bring them again if the person doesn’t like to bake!).
If you like Pepperidge Farm soft molasses cookies, hermits and ginger snaps you will LOVE these cookies! They are especially yummy right out of the oven! Make them now!
Very, very good.
This has been a tradition in our family for many years. A little addition is to depress your thumb in each ball of dough after rolling in sugar and place a small bit of raspberry jam in each before putting in the oven. A real hit!
Nope. Real lumberjack cookies have black pepper in them. I know, my grandfather owned a lumber camp in the 20’s in Maine and my mom gave me the recipe.
Would love to have your recipe….if it is possible, Thank you and have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Donna DelVecchio – New York
Yes, every winter I have made many different recipes for Molasses cookies and lots of them have pepper included. Actually, the more authentic and older molasses cookie recipes have pepper included in the ingredients. To me, the pepper is more like a feeling on the tongue as opposed to a taste in the molasses cookies. It just makes them a little spicy! Mmmmm……
My mother, and now I have been making this recipe for 30+ years. She found the original recipe in the Old Sturbridge Village Recipe book, they are also called Ginger cookies. This is my all time favorite cookie. Delicious treat that brings warm memories of my childhood and now to my own children!