Mimi Miller's Long-Lost Gingerbread Cookies

4.5 (4)

Staff writer Tim Carman's great-grandmother handed down this gingerbread cooky recipe, but implicit the years, household members transcribing the look unwittingly altered it successful galore tiny ways. At its worst, it called for 8 cups of flour -- and perfectly nary ginger. This is Carman's effort to reconstruct the look to its archetypal state.

Before it yet comes unneurotic astatine the end, this is 1 sticky dough. Accordingly, it's amended to usage a manus mixer; the dough's sticky signifier tends to gum up an electrical mixer.

The dough needs to beryllium refrigerated for astatine slightest an hr earlier it is rolled retired and baked.

Adapted from a look by Mimi Miller.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per cooky (using two-thirds of the frosting)

• Calories

  160

• Fat

  6 g

• Saturated Fat

  2 g

• Carbohydrates

  25 g

• Sodium

  150 mg

• Cholesterol

  15 mg

• Protein

  2 g

• Sugar

  14 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from a look by Mimi Miller.

Tested by Tim Carman.