Old-fashioned molasses yam cookies
1 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1½ | cup | Mashed cooked yams; (about 2 medium yams = 1-1/2 cups) |
| 1¾ | cup | Unsifted flour |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt |
| ½ | teaspoon | Soda |
| 1 | teaspoon | Cinnamon |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Cloves |
| 1 | Orange rind; grated | |
| ⅔ | cup | Butter |
| ½ | cup | Sugar |
| ½ | cup | Molasses |
| ½ | cup | Chopped nuts |
| Additional nut pieces | ||
Directions
To prepare yams, bake at 350 for 40 minutes or cook in boiling water to cover 25 minutes until soft. Cool, peel and mash. Mix flour, salt, soda, cinnamon, cloves and orange rind. Melt butter in large saucepan; stir in yams, sugar, molasses and chopped nuts. Blend in flour mixture. Cover and chill 1-½ hours. Drop rounded teaspoons of dough onto ungreased baking sheet; flatten slightly with back of spoon. Press a nut piece in center of each cookie. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes. Remove from sheet and cool on racks. Makes 6 dozen.
MRS HUGH BONNER (GAY)
TURNER, AR
From the book <High Cotton Cookin'>, Marvell Academy Mothers Assn, Marvell, AR 72366, ISBN 0-918544-14-9, downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, .