Ingredients
1/2 cup molasses
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
1 egg, well beaten
2 1/2 cup sifted all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp cinnamon
Directions
Heat molasses in small saucepan to boiling point. The boil 1 minute.
Add sugar and butter and stir until butter is melted. Cool. Beat in
egg. Sift together flour, salt, soda and spices. Add to first mixture
and mix thoroughly. Cover bowl tightly and chill overnight. Roll out
a portion of the dough at a time on lightly floured pastry cloth.
Roll out thin. Cut into desired shapes. Bake in a moderate oven (350)
6 to 8 minutes. Yield: 10 dozen cookies Note: The dough may be shaped
into a roll and wrapped in waxed paper. Chill thoroughly overnight or
longer. Slice thin and bake in moderate oven (350). These should be
stored in an air-tight container - allow flavor to "ripen".
Servings: 10 servings
Pepparkakor (Swedish Ginger Cookies) Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Cookie
The History of Recipes
Food historians have found proof that recipes existed far back into distant history, at least as far back into recorded history as early Egypt, and quite possibly further than that. Interesting though that is, mostly, these ancient cookbooks were just very simple hieroglyphic recipes for meal preparation.
Interestingly, the oldest recipe discovered so far, according to historians are some clay tablets in Sumerian which describe the making of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as having made anyone who tried it feel exhilarated. Later on, in Roman times 25BC a roman called Apicius wrote a collection of documents describing recipes prepared by the Romans. In his works, he recounts how the meals were separated into starters, main meal and dessert, a style of dining still practiced today. He also recounts how the early Romans were skilled in the use of many aromatic flavours, including a few that will be familiar to modern chefs for example thyme, fennel and dill. During the succeeding few hundred years, the powerful and wealthy competed with each other to offer the most extravagent meals, and because of this the best cooks and their recipes were greatly in demand. However, it was during the 19th century that haute cuisine and recipe collections reached a high level of popularity. The Famous Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Merritt Farmer in the USA, devoted much of their lives to collating, trying out, and publishing the recipes of their peers. By the time we get to the twentieth century, cooking publications are highly popular mostly as a result of increased literacy, people having more leisure time and a general increase in wealth. Like it or not, the introduction of TV brings us TV cooks and the recipe books that accompanied them. And that brings us to the present day and the internet revolution, allowing everybody to access massive numbers of recipes like the ones you can find on sites such as the one you are reading now. |
We hope you enjoy this Pepparkakor (Swedish Ginger Cookies) recipe.
