Name: Moravian Sugar Cookies
Ingredients: 4 ½ cups all-purpose flour; ¼ teaspoon baking soda; ¼ teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; ½ teaspoon ground cloves; ¼ teaspoon ground ginger; 1 cup packed brown sugar; ½ cup butter; ½ cup shortening; 1 ½ cups dark molasses; ½ teaspoon distilled white vinegar

This is a very old recipe. The Moravian Settlers were in our area, Lehighton, PA.  A very thin rolled cookie.

Moravian Sugar Cookies

all-purpose flour

baking soda

salt

cinnamon

cloves

ginger

brown sugar

butter

shortening

dark molasses

white vinegar

Mix together flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves and ginger.


In a separate bowl, cream together the brown sugar, butter and shortening.  Add to the flour mixture and mix well.  Add molasses and vinegar.  Mix well.


Roll out a small amount of dough to 1/8 (or less) inch thick.  Cut into desired shapes.


Bake at 350 degrees F (180 degrees C) for 10 minutes or until light brown.


This large recipe could easily be scaled down. Definitely a cookie that would appeal to those who enjoy molasses cookies for that is what they essentially are.

These are delicious and the dough is easy to make. However this is the stickiest dough ever! I finally figured out that I needed to roll the dough right on the parchment paper cut out the cookies and remove the scraps because the dough was too sticky to be transferred. Makes a ton of cookies so good for a cookie exchange if you're willing to do the work.

We didn't like these cookies even a little bit! Made the dough. You better be a REAL molasses lover for this one.

Moravian Sugar Cookies

Servings: 5

Author : Pat Wieghorst

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