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Category: Holiday Foods/Christmas
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Title: 1989 2nd Place Great-Grandma's Gingerbread Cookies
Ingredients:
36 Servings
1/2 Cup Vegetable shortening
1 Cup Sugar
3 Eggs
1/2 Cup Cold water
2 Tsp Baking soda
1 Cup Sorghum (or molasses)
All-purpose flour (5-6 cups)
1 Tsp cinnamon, Ground
1/2 Tsp cloves, Ground
1 Tsp Ginger
1/2 Tsp Salt
Method of Preparation:
Preparation time: 30 minutes Chilling time: Overnight Baking time: 10 minutes 1. Cream shortening and sugar in mixing bowl, beat in eggs, one at a time. Mix water and baking soda in small bowl until dissolved. Add baking soda mixture and sorghum to butter mixture. Sift 5 1/2 cups of the flour, the spices and salt together. Blend into dough. Divide dough into 4 balls. Wrap in plastic wrap. Flatten and refrigerate overnight. 2. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Roll 1 portion of dough out at a time on lightly floured surface. Cut into desired shapes. Bake on a greased cookie sheet until puffed, 10 to 12 minutes. Do not overbake. 3. When cool, decorate with buttercream frosting and/or candies as desired. Sorghum gives these cookies a special flavor, but molasses can be used as a substitute. Ann Smith of Plainfield won second place, and described how her gingerbread men left Bohemia in 1872 and immigrated to the United States. Smith's great-grandmother, "Babicka" Novak, lived in a small Czech-American town in South Dakota where Smith's mother grew up in the 1920s. At Christmas time, her great-grandma would give her neighbors Old World gingerbread men, reindeer and rocking horses. "One year when Great-grandma delivered the cookies, she brought along her teenaged grandson, who was visiting from a small ethnic Czech community in Nebraska," Smith wrote. "Introductions made that day over the watchful eyes of the gingerbread men eventually lead to wedding bells for my parents a decade later. Great-grandma Novak probably had planned this all along!" from the Chicago Tribune second annual Food Guide Holiday Cookie Contest December 14, 1989 Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3 #340 From: Linda Place <> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 01:07:01 +------------------- |
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