Gingerbread cookies

1 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
¼ cup Applesauce
½ cup Brown sugar
1½ cup Dark molasses
½ cup Cold water
3 cups White flour
3 cups Whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons Allspice
2 teaspoons Ginger
2 teaspoons Cloves
2 teaspoons Cinnamon
2 teaspoons Vanilla
2 teaspoons Baking soda
½ teaspoon Salt
1 tablespoon Cold water

Directions

Mix the applesauce, brown sugar and molasses together thoroughly.

Stir in ½ cup cold water and vanilla.

Mix together dry ingredients. Add to the dough. Add 1 T cold water.

Mix well.

Cover bowl and chill dough (for at least one hour.) Preheat oven to 350. Roll out dough thick (½ inch). Cuts with small glass (1-2 inch diameter). Place on lightly oiled (sprayed) cookie sheet.

Bake about 10 minutes (until no imprint remains when touched lightly with finger).

Notes: This recipe is from Sonja and William Conner's The New American Diet (pp. 365).

Posted by fry26@... (Fred Yaeger ph=3556) to the Fatfree Digest Vol. 12 Issue 15 Nov. 16, 1994. FATFREE Recipe collections copyrighted by Michelle Dick 1994. Used with permission. Formatted by Sue Smith, S.Smith34, TXFT40A@... using MMCONV.

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