Grandma's Recipes for Mother and Daughter

by American Molasses Company

YIELD: 18 ice cream shells.

MOLASSES SAND TARTS

4 cups sifted enriched flour

1⅔ cups sugar

1⅓ cups butter or margarine

⅔ cup GRANDMA’S MOLASSES

1 whole egg plus 1 egg yolk

¼ cup sugar

1 teaspoon cinnamon

Sift together flour and sugar. Cut in butter or margarine with fingers or pastry blender to resemble coarse meal. Combine molasses and eggs; stir into flour-butter mixture. Chill dough overnight or until ready to bake. Roll dough ¹/₁₆ inch thick on board dusted with confectioners’ sugar. Shape with cooky cutters. Place on greased cooky sheets. Mix sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle lightly over unbaked cookies. Bake in moderately hot oven (400° F.) 6 to 7 minutes or until edges have lightly browned. Cool. Store in tightly closed tin box.