Molasses Cakes

By rkeb

These are thick soft molasses cookies - great for dunking. The top coating, effected with egg yokes, is quite shiny.

Ingredients

• 1 3/4 cup Molasses
• 2 cups light brown sugar
• 1 1/2 cups lard
• 5 tsp soda
• 2 cups buttermilk
• 7 cups flour (unsifted)
• 1/2 Tsp salt

Preparation

Step 1

Cream the sugar and lard thoroughly. Add molasses.
Mix soda with sour milk and add the sugar mixture alternating with flour and salt. Store overnight in a covered bowl in the refrigerator. In the morning drop from a table spoon onto a cookie sheet, about 2 inches apart.
Flatten slightly and brush with beaten egg yokes.
Bake in oven for 10 min at 375 Deg