RCI-BR.005.0051.001

Lumberjacks

Name: Lumberjacks
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 1 cup caster sugar; 1 cup white tinned vegetable shortening or butter; 1 cup dark molasses. (Different countries use different strengths of molasses. A dark true molasses will require you to use 2 tablespoons molasses and the rest white sugar. In Abu Dhabi my mom used one packed cup of muscovado (unrefined or raw sugar) and no molasses. If you can find the American brand of Grandma's dark molasses then that is perfect.); 2 unit eggs; 4 cups of sifted flour (not self-raising); 1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda; 2 teaspoons cinnamon; 1 teaspoon ginger

are a cookie recipe from the Old Sturbridge Village Cookbook, and reflect baking from 1830s New Engl

Prep15 min

Cook30 min

Total45 min

Servings4

Difficultyintermediate

Ingredients

caster sugar
1 cup
white tinned vegetable shortening or butter
1 cup
dark molasses. (Different countries use different strengths of molasses. A dark true molasses will require you to use 2 tablespoons molasses and the rest white sugar. In Abu Dhabi my mom used one packed cup of muscovado (unrefined or raw sugar) and no molasses. If you can find the American brand of Grandma's dark molasses then that is perfect.)
1 cup
eggs
2 unit
of sifted flour (not self-raising)
4 cups
of bicarbonate of soda
1 teaspoon
cinnamon
2 teaspoons
ginger
1 teaspoon

Method

Prepare according to traditional method. (Directions were not provided in the legacy source.)

Lumberjacks

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