Merry Christmas!!!! Rolled Molasses Cooky

Rolled Molasses Cooky Alice Sutz

1 ½ cup dark molasses
1 cup sugar
1 cup Mazola
(blend together)
2 eggs – add
2/3 cup sour milk
2 tsp soda (1 tsp in milk & 1 tsp in the flour)
6 cups flour
1 tsp salt
½ tsp cloves
2 tsp ginger
2 tsp cinnamon
¼ tsp nutmeg

Sift 2 cups of flour with other ingredients and add alternately with milk to first mixture. Keep the dough soft – all 6 cups of flour may not be necessary. Chill – Roll out thick – cut & sprinkle with sugar. 400 degrees 5-8 minutes. Notes Very difficult to work with.

So...I just took a cookie class and we made something really really similar to this....a couple of things that might make this dough easier to work with...add up to 4 cups stirring consistently, then stir a few minutes longer than when you think you are done. If the mixture is still very moist, keep adding flour. Repeat. Once you've added all the flour, chill for at least an hour. When rolling out the cookie dough, roll it out over cocoa powder so that it won't get white marks all over it if you used flour. That will also absorb some of the extra moistness.

Good luck!