Daily Cookie Challenge

I have challenged myself to make a batch of cookies every day until Christmas. Today's cookies, my mother's favorite-- ginger thins. You can make them any size you want! according to the recipe, they're supposed to be the size of nickels. Or pennies. Or even dimes. So after I had done the first two thirds of a tray by hand, I put the dough in a disposable pastry bag and cut the tip to size for a perfect 1/8 teaspoon cookie dough pea on the sheet. Also the dough was not heavy enough to weigh down the parchment paper  (no ... you don't say) so I cut little slits at the corners to ensure the cookies (or nickels) were flat. Though I think nickels would have done a much better job holding down the parchment paper. HOWEVER, mommy dearest,  coming home after a martini or two last night, said they need to be bigger! more like 2" in diameter. and flat they go in the oven. Go figure. I guess my 1970's joy of cooking is a bit off on this one. So I tried again!

 I messed up a bit on my spacing with the second batch.... whatever they were too delicious for me to care!

Recipe of the Day:

Ginger Thins                                                                                         About Three hundred 3/4 inch wafers

Preheat oven to 325°.

Cream:

¾ cup butter

1 cup brown sugar

1 beaten egg

¼ cup molasses (I substituted 1 tbsp corn syrup 3 tbsp brown sugar)

Sift together:

1½ cups flour

¼ tsp salt

½ tsp baking soda

½ tsp each cloves, cinnamon and ginger

Combine the above ingredients and stir until smooth. Put dots of ⅛ teaspoon of dough 1 inch apart on a cookie sheet covered in parchment paper and bake 5 to 6 minutes. Cool on a rack.  They should have the diameter of a quarter when baked, for they toughen if they are larger.

I found that they do not, in fact, toughen, and so has my mother over the last 30-plus odd years of her baking these as her favorite cookie. Her additional instruction is to sprinkle a ginger, cinnamon and sugar mixture atop the cookies before baking. That is tomorrow's task, as I made a double batch and still have    3-ish cups of dough in a mixing bowl in my fridge...  PS, refrigeration does not positively or negatively affect these gingery Christmas... nickels.