Month: December 2017

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Ginger & Molasses Cookies

These tasty cookies melt in your mouth with a delectable blend of flavours. Savour each bite slowly and enjoy the sensations of the mild molasses, ginger and cloves on your tongue.

Ingredients:

  • 2 1/4 cups flour
  • 2 tsp ground ginger
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 3/4 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp cloves
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 3/4 cup butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 cup molasses
  • a little sugar in a bowl

Method

Combine the first set of ingredients in a bowl. Then in a bigger bowl, beat the butter and 1 cup sugar until fluffy. Add egg and molasses and mix well. Gradually add dry ingredients to wet and combine.

Roll dough into 1 1/2 inch balls and roll balls in sugar. Bake at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes.

These cookies are great for baking ahead of time in preparation for holiday guests, as they keep well in a cookie tin, that is, if you can keep temptation at bay!

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Farmers’ Markets

I’ve started a new little volunteer job of writing weekly articles for the local Farmers’ Market. It’s interesting interviewing various vendors and writing about them and their products. So far I’ve written about a young lady who makes French pastries, a middle-aged man & wife who raise sheep, pigs and chickens and run a meat processing plant, and a middle-aged Korean man who makes traditional kimchi in the natural process he learned from his grandma.

It’s great to have a local community of cottage industries with such diversity. Here is the link to our Farmers’ Market, which is officially called the Island Roots Market Cooperative: Island Roots Market

There are lots more interesting vendors as well, and I look forward to writing about them.