My 97-year-old mother has been asking me to bake her mother’s signature gingerbread cookies. I never made them before, fearing they’d never be the same as my grandmother’s. Every year, my sister-in-law makes them, and frankly, they’re just awful. The taste is bland, the cookies dry and overcooked. I think that’s why my mom asked me to try. I made the dough yesterday and the cookies today and they turned out GREAT. Shipped some out to my family members who may not be able to gather due to COVID.
@cassandra17lina Those look amazing!
@cassandra17lina right on!
@cassandra17lina They look fabulous! Good for you! Happy Christmas.
@cassandra17lina They look really good. #Success is marvelous! 😺
@cassandra17lina Those look awesome!
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They are beautiful! And look delicious. 😋
@cassandra17lina these look a whole lot like ones my mom used to bake when I was a kid, way back in the dark ages.
@cassandra17lina WOW!! Congratz.. *crunch, crunch, crunch...*
@cassandra17lina share the recipe?
@NorthernInvader I’ll have to retype it - the original is in my grandmother’s very shaky and faint handwriting. I’ll try to post it in a day or two. I wanted to try if first to be sure it “worked.”
@cassandra17lina awesome thanks
@NorthernInvader OK… I just retyped the recipe and posted it as a reply - here is is again. Good luck!
@cassandra17lina awesome, thanks. As a borderline Type 2 diabetic I'm glad to see there is no sugar and only a small amount of mollasses
@NorthernInvader there’s brown sugar, but I have successfully made other recipes substituting Truvia for sugar, entirely or in part.
@cassandra17lina I completely missed that (old age sucks) I'll use stevia
@cassandra17lina They look awesome and your mother is so lucky to get a batch that worked out well! Lovely.
@cassandra17lina they look amazing.
@cassandra17lina so pretty!
@cassandra17lina Beautifully done!
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Congratulations! I’m happy for you, and especially for your mom! 😋
@DPotatoesOBrien she is so bummed out that a family member with COVID will likely keep the family from gathering, so I shipped cookies to three households.
@cassandra17lina Those look yummy but I'm too lazy to go through all of that work. Yesterday I placed an order with a local, old-school bakery (opened in 1924!) for a half dozen of their decorated gingerbread men and women. Drool!
@BenA I’m glad you’re supporting a local merchant! Enjoy your cookies.
You mean there's no ginger in Gingerbread cookies??? I never knew
@RORos There’s powdered ginger
Oh..okay. Somehow I pictured fresh. Powder is good. Gonna try your recipe one day.... TY
@cassandra17lina Awesome! Old family recipe day here as well. Nothing smells quite as much like Christmas to me as Mom's zucchini bread. She's not around any more so it's up to me to make it happen. Came out great. Took longer to bake as usual but the flavor was exactly right even with the substitution of gluten free flour for my family's needs. #Christmas
Okay… here’s my transcription and adaptation of the recipe