I Just Baked My Mom's Molasses Cookies
 

I am so excited. I havent had these in years. I really love these. My Mom would make them every Christmas. They were my favorites. So good. This year, I decided to try and make them. My Mom had sent me the recipe years ago, but I never made them. My wife tried once and failed miserably.
Its been a year since my Mom died. I still have her email. Which was sad looking at. But I had to try.

And wow, not as good as my Mom's but pretty darn good. They are a very technical cookie. At least for me. Not many steps, but things Im not used to doing.

So happy.

:)

So jealous. I love molasses cookies.

I remember when I was really young my grandparents used to make these old German anise cookies....I had to go look them up, they're called Springerle, and they're formed with a board or pin that's covered with olde-timey designs. My grandparents had one like this, I can remember rolling 'em out with them:



..they stopped making 'em when they/I got older, and as a result the memory always give me that Christmas-as-a-kid feeling...though I haven't actually had the cookie itself in many, many years. It was a fucked up cookie! Basically a sugar cookie that tastes like black licorice. And my grandparents were not exactly known for cooking/baking anything, so I was probably getting a badly botched version of what was already an ancient German licorice cookie. Yum?

My great-grandmother and some of her relatives were legendary for their lebkuchen german cookies they made at Christmas. To me as a kid (and adult) they were basically inedible. Sort of like a bad combination of fruitcake and cookie.

BAKED... as in medicinal product enhanced?! :p

The only real food tradition I have is Cranberry Nutbread. It's made from scratch every Thanksgiving and Christmas...my grandmother (from NY) and my great aunts (from Mass) insisted that my mother take on the tradition. I grew up on that stuff and it is amazing. My daughter made her first one this Thanksgiving....so the tradition continues!

I heat up the slices, put butter on them and then eat about 2 lbs of it before I fall-out...of course, now I slow down a bit...but when I was in my 20's and 30's, goodness...I would crush it. :p

nice story Tarcone. I hope you made enough for all of us. ;) My Grandmother (also German decedent) made a ton of cookies (and Chex mix!) for Christmas every year-i think they had more cookies luggage than clothes luggage when they came each winter. :) My mom doesn't have the same enthusiasm for baking any more, but thankfully one of my sister-in-laws does. I'm still eating some she left for Thanksgiving, and she makes a butterscotch cookie just for me :) Needless to say I'm not monitoring my salt intake as much during the holidays...