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Spice Cookies

A dish that starts with molasses and finishes with sugar.

Gingerbreads, Cookies, And Wafers

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Ingredients

Units: US Metric
Scale: ½× – 4× with Plus →
  • 120 ml molasses
  • 60 ml sugar
  • 22 ml butter
  • 22 ml lard
  • 15 ml milk
  • 470 ml flour
  • 2 ml soda
  • 2 ml salt
  • 2 ml clove
  • 2 ml cinnamon
  • 2 ml nutmeg
Make it lactose-friendly
  • 1½ tablespoons butter → plant butter, ghee (mostly lactose-free), or olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon milk → lactose-free milk, oat milk, or almond milk

Swaps are suggestions, not medical advice. Check labels if lactose is a serious issue for you.

Steps

  1. Heat the molasses to the boiling point.
  2. Add the sugar, butter, lard, and milk, and mix.
  3. Mix and sift together the flour, soda, salt, clove, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
  4. Add the sifted dry ingredients to the molasses mixture and mix.
  5. Chill the dough thoroughly.

Steps last refined 2026-11-12 — we sharpen our recipes every week, so check back.

Nutrition (estimated, per serving)
Calories485
Protein6.7 g
Fat10.0 g
Carbs92.5 g
Fiber2.0 g
Sodium315 mg

Source

The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (Fannie Farmer, pub. domain) — Public domain in the United States