Make healthy cookies! These molasses hermits cookies are a vintage cookie recipe handwritten in a recipe notebook kept by my grandmother. Enjoy the story of this hand-me-down recipe, below. Make and enjoy your own homemade healthy cookies, sweetened with old-fashioned molasses and the natural sweetness of raisins, we share here.
Molasses Hermits Cookies Recipe | whole grain + naturally sweetened
{The story behind these old fashioned cookies} The recipe book is handwritten. A delicate scrawl on a dime-store spiral notebook circa the old days when store goods were still stickered with paper price tags and handpunched into a push button cash register. The handwritten recipe book was created by my grandmother—recipes recorded on the lined pages. She collected recipes, delicately recorded in her hand, when her aged but still deft fingers were not occupied with crocheting dainty string doilies. It came into my daughter's hands as a memory-full birthday gift from my mother. Handed down from one baker, to the next, and the next. It was a heartkept gift, and in my daughter's hands, truly cherished. To thank the giver, my daughter chose one of my grandmother's recipes to bake to send to my mother—her nana. Something sweet, something healthy, something delicious is where the page stayed open and the search for ingredients in our pantry began. Part of this recipe's delight was having my daughter's and my temples pressed together, poured over the book, trying to decipher the small, slanted writing and abbreviated instructions. Sour milk? We went with buttermilk. Soda? Must be baking soda. Our daughter baked deliciously wholesome hermit cookies to mail to her Nana. She wanted to show how much she held dear this family recipe book gift she found to be the perfect birthday gift of memories, family history, and love. Do you want to hear her Nana's story behind this handwritten recipe book she thought to give her granddaughter? Enjoy her hermit cookie post too.
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