As promised last Friday, I've baked ginger cookies today, or as Todd calls them - "gingers". The original recipe came from "Our Favorite Recipes" published many years ago by South Trail Hospital Auxillary, Frontier, Saskatchewan. South Trail was a country school south of Frontier. One of the things this group of ladies did was to serve homemade ice cream at picnics and field days. They bought a big ice cream freezer in 1936 and served ice cream at sports days in town. The taste of that ice cream stayed with me and we make that same recipe for special occasions in our family. I use 1/6 of their recipe, one quart of cream instead of six!
Back to those ginger cookies! The recipe I first started using was Eileen Garman's "Molasses Sugar Cookies." Over the years I've changed it - use whole wheat flour instead of white, cut the amount of brown sugar in half, increased the spices a bit, use canola oil instead of margarine. Oh, and I now make three times the recipe as my normal batch! My last change was to substitute one cup of ground flax seed for one cup of the flour. As Ashley likes to ask "What next?" I guess time will tell.
I'm going to do something different with the recipe this time. Instead of putting it in my blog, you'll have to email me for it. I typed it out for a friend a few weeks ago so it's all ready to go, just email me at hejohnson@xplornet.ca and I'll be happy to send it to you.
It's a beautiful fall day, just a slight breeze from the south bringing us warm air. It might be the warmest day we have until next spring so I better get out and finish washing windows and perhaps cut the grass one last time.
We'll see what we come up with next Friday.
Here Ginger Here Pup!!!! That is what told shouted after reading your blog. Todd is going to have one of my gingers now. I made a batch before the marathon and put them in the freezer. Funny story about the gingers......
ReplyDeleteWhen Todd was first in Norway at Christmas time in 1995 he carried around a pail of your cookies everywhere he went. Him and Josh were tourists carrying around a pail of cookies. They are that good!!
Thanks for sharing that ginger story, Kristy. I wonder what it is about "gingers" that make people love them! Our grandkids and Sandra's too all love ginger cookies. Is it the soft and chewy texture or is it that they have nothing in them not to like - no raisins, nuts, oatmeal, chips?
ReplyDeleteI think it's just the pure flavour, no junk mixed in.
ReplyDelete