2 1/4 cup unsifted all-purpose flour
3/4 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup pure maple syrup
1/4 cup sorghum molasses
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ground ginger
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground cardamom
1/4 tsp salt
1 additional sugar for coating
Directions
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Have ungreased baking sheet(s) ready.
2. Combine all ingredients, except sugar for coating, in large bowl
of an electric mixer. Beat on low speed until combined. Refrigerate
to firm dough slightly, about 20 minutes.
3. Roll into large balls, using 1/4 cup dough each for large
cookies or a scant tablespoon for smaller cookies (dough will be
soft). Roll in additional sugar to coat. Arrange on baking sheet,
spacing them 3 inches apart.
4. Bake until set, about 15 minutes for large cookies and 10
minutes for smaller ones. Cool on baking sheet 1 minute before
transferring to wire rack to cool.
Fourth-place winner in the 1995 Chicago Tribune Holiday Cookie
Contest: by Agnes Da Costa of Countryside
Servings: 1 servings
1995 4th Place: Friendship Cookies Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Cookie
The History of Recipes
Recipes as a concept can be tracked way back into distant history, in fact as far back into recorded history as the Egyptians, and possibly even further. Having said that, sadly, these ancient recipes were just primitive pictorial recipes for preparing meals.
In an interesting twist, the most ancient recipe discovered so far, according to academics is a series of stone tablets in the Sumerian language which recount the baking of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as making drinkers feel wonderful. Moving on, we have a couple of cookery books which date from the fourteenth century : a recipe book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary named `Curye on Inglish`. Don`t be fooled by the titles though, these two books are unconnected to the spicy food that is served today, but instead accounts of the types of food prepared by the cooks of the rich people of that time. During the next few hundred years, the upper-class families of Europe competed to lay on the most exotic meals, and because of this the best chefs and their collection of recipes became highly prized. Notwithstanding that, it was during the 19th century that cooking and cookery books became popular. Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Merritt Farmer in the USA, devoted much of their lives to collecting, verifying, and recording popular recipes of the day. By the advent of the 1900s, cooking books are highly popular mostly due to higher levels of literacy, people having increased leisure time and disposable income. Like it or not, the introduction of TV brings us TV cooks and the recipe books that accompanied them. Which brings us neatly to the present day and the internet revolution, permitting us all to access massive numbers of recipes like the ones you can find on our web site. |
We hope you enjoy this 1995 4th Place_ Friendship Cookies recipe.
