I come from a long line of divine cooks. Their recipes were written on hundreds of little cards and shared. Eventually some of those cards were passed on to me. Every once in a while I like to pull one of those recipes from my ‘family tree’ and get all nostalgic. ’Picked from the Tree’ is a series where I document those recipes from my family tree and maybe share a memory or two.
This is probably my favorite holiday cookie. It's just the right amount of spice and it basically melts in your mouth when you take a bite.
The recipe came from my dads mom and I love that it's written on her pink stationary from work. She was the Dean of Girls for the Hayward School District (Bay Area of California) during integration and she has some pretty amazing stories to tell. One of my favorites is about a girl that turned in a Home Ec. project the day of graduation so that she would be able to graduate and yelled, "It aint done right, but it's done did!" That has kind of become our family motto since then :).
Cry Babies - makes 60 cookies
Sift these five ingredients:
2 scant cups flour
2 tsp soda
1 tsp ground cloves
1 tsp ground ginger
2 tsp cinnamon
Add to that:
1 cup sugar
1 unbeaten egg
3/4 cup shortening
4 tbsp molasses
Mix well. Fill end of teaspoon or roll in ball the size of a walnut and drop in 1/2 cup sugar.
Bake on ungreased tin at 350* for 10 minutes (or shorter - check after 5).
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