Winter Bazaar - Halloween Recipes

Grandma’s Ginger Cookies
Sylvia Powell Lemley, my grandmother

Ingredients:

2 pint bottles of Brer Rabbit Molasses (green label if they have it)
1 pint melted lard
1 pint buttermilk
2 eggs
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp ginger
2 tbsp soda
1 cup white sugar
5 pounds flour (won’t need all of it, but have it on hand)

THIS MAKES LOTS OF COOKIES!

Directions:

1. Cream sugar and eggs. Add salt, ginger and soda, mixing well after each addition.
2. Then add lard, molasses and buttermilk, beating after each. Then, add flour (a couple of cups at a time) until you have a soft sticky dough. Do not get the dough stiff or the cookies will be dry.
3. Flour board and roll out dough and cut with juice glass or small cutter (we like to use gingerbread men shaped cookie cutters) We also like to decorate with raisins, cinnamon hearts and icing.
4. Bake at 350 degrees. 10-12 minutes, begin watching.

GREAT WARM and dunked in milk or coffee!!! Freeze well.

We usually make these at Christmas time, but they are wonderful anytime. Cut the cookies into pumpkin shapes or ghost shapes and decorate them accordingly! The wonderful taste of ginger will have your family and trick-or-treaters coming back for more!

Russian Tea
Sheila Elaine Lemley Orndorff Galford (my mom)

Ingredients:

8 cups water
2 cups sugar
12 ounce frozen orange juice
2 lemons (juice of)
1 quart can unsweetened pineapple juice
2 tbsp whole cloves
5 tbsp tea or 2 double bags or 4 small tea bags

Directions:

Boil Water, cloves and tea.

Simmer 5 minutes-strain.

Add juices, sugar and boil 8 minutes.

Serve hot or cold. Keep refrigerated.

w/sugar, makes 14 cups -190 calories/8 oz serving

w/nutrasweet – makes 14 cupss-80 calories/8 oz serving

(My children love to drink this hot or cold and adults love it too!) A great beverage for your Halloween party and the scent of it cooking is delightful!