Grandmother's Lebkuchen Cookies

Total Time: 73 hrs Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 72 hrs

Ingredients

• 1 pint molasses (green label-brer rabbit)
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 cup shortening
• 1 1/4 teaspoons anise oil
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon clove
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 3 teaspoons baking soda (dissolved in 1/4 cup of warm water)
• 1 cup coffee, warm
• 1 teaspoon vinegar
• 1 cup walnuts, ground fine
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 7 1/2-8 cups flour

Recipe

• 1 cream together molasses, brown sugar, egg, and shortening.
• 2 sift cinnamon, cloves, baking powder, salt, and flour and set aside.
• 3 add coffee, anise oil and vinegar to creamed brown sugar mixture and mix thoroughly.
• 4 add dry ingredients and baking soda solution to mixture (mix well).
• 5 add ground walnuts and mix.
• 6 refrigerate for at least 3 days.
• 7 dough will be tough.
• 8 keep unused dough in fridge.
• 9 keep flouring rolling pin.
• 10 on a floured surface and with a floured rolling pin roll out dough (roll out a pound at a time) to 1/4 of an inch.
• 11 cut cookies with cookie cutters.
• 12 grease cookie sheet slightly.
• 13 bake at 350 degrees for about 8 minutes.
• 14 ice with confectioner sugar, butter, milk icing (i don't have exact measurements for her icing because she says she wings it).