For a novelty cookbook I’m getting a lot of mileage out of Cooking with Regis & Kathie Lee. I picked up the cookbook out of a sense of nostalgia for the old Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee daytime show. I’d still say the book is more fun to read than it is to……
Ingredient: molasses
Grandmother’s Ginger Nuts (adapted from Mennonite Community Cookbook, 1950)
The recipe in Mennonite Community Cookbook that I find most entertaining is Grandmother’s Ginger Nuts. This book designates the recipe as “very old”, presumably from the late nineteenth century. This recipe was submitted independently by two different women, once as Grandmother’s Ginger Nuts and another as Ginger Balls. And while there’s some puerile entertainment……