Lumberjacks
Lumberjacks are a cookie from the Old Sturbridge Village Cookbook, and they reflect baking from 1830s New England.
Ingredients
- 1 cup caster sugar
- 1 cup white vegetable shortening or butter
- 1 cup dark molasses
- 2 eggs
- 4 cups sifted flour (not self-raising)
- 1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ginger
Ingredients for 12 servings (1.4 kg) · the original recipe
Method
- 1
Cream together the sugar and shortening.
- 2
Add molasses and eggs, and mix well.
- 3
Sift together the flour, spices, and bicarbonate of soda. Add this mixture to the egg-butter mixture, and mix well to make a dough.
- 4
Put ¼ cup additional white sugar into a small bowl.
- 5
Dip fingers into the sugar, then pinch off a ball of dough and roll it into the size and shape of a walnut.
- 6
Roll the cookie dough ball into the sugar and place on a greased cookie sheet.
- 7
Repeat the shaping and sugar-coating process with the remaining dough, spacing the cookies about 3 inches apart on the sheet.
- 8
Bake in a preheated 350°F (175°C) oven for 10–15 minutes.
Oven - 9
Let cool completely—the cookies should be soft when cooled.
Recipe from Wikibooks Cookbook, written by Wikibooks contributors. Used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; the ingredient list and method on this page are taken from that page and edited (its notes, tips and variations are not reproduced), and are available under the same licence. The macros, equipment tags and scaling are Ma Kitchen’s own and are not the source’s figures. Ma Kitchen is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wikibooks Cookbook. Copied on 2026-11-12.
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