This recipe for old-fashioned Molasses Sugar Cookies uses ingredients like cloves, ginger, and cinnamon to create a treat that’s crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside.

Finding an old recipe is like seeing a long-lost friend. I was reminded of this yesterday after finally finding the recipe for Molasses Sugar Cookies. I was afraid I had lost the list of ingredients and carefully printed instructions for this delicious old-fashioned treat.

These cookies are easy to make and they bake up crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside.

Because molasses is the key ingredient, these cookies are almost good for you. Molasses, a sugar derived from sugar cane or sugar beets, gives these cookies their delicious dark brown color and adds a deeper kind of sweetness. The thick brown liquid also contains vitamins and minerals, like iron, calcium and potassium.

That’s enough to make you feel downright healthy eating them.

Molasses sugar cookies are an old-fashioned favorite.

In December I just can’t stay out of the kitchen. For one thing, it’s warm in there so it makes a perfect refuge for days when the thermometer won’t budge much above zero.

The kitchen is also where I love to pull out old recipes and greet them like long-lost friends.

Molasses Sugar Cookies are John’s favorite cookies and I try to bake at least one batch every holiday season. Ingredients like cloves, ginger and cinnamon combine for a wonderful fragrance that reminds me of an old-fashioned Christmas.

These cookies are easy to make and they bake up crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside. Because molasses is the key ingredient, these cookies are almost good for you.

Molasses, a sugar derived from sugar cane or sugar beets, gives these cookies their delicious dark brown color and adds a deeper kind of sweetness. The thick brown liquid also contains vitamins and minerals, like iron, calcium and potassium.