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1989 2nd Place Great-Grandma’s Gingerbread Cookies
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CATEGORY
CUISINE
TAG
YIELD
Vegetables, Eggs
American
Cookies, Holiday
36
Servings
INGREDIENTS
1/2
c
Vegetable shortening
1
c
Sugar
3
Eggs
1/2
c
Cold water
2
ts
Baking soda
1
c
Sorghum or molasses
All-purpose flour (5-6 cups)
1
ts
Ground cinnamon
1/2
ts
Ground cloves
1
ts
Ginger
1/2
ts
Salt
INSTRUCTIONS
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
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 01:07:01 +0000
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