Joe Froggers

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Appears in Cook's Country February/March 2007

This Massachusetts spice cookie dates back 200 years and was originally made with seawater and rum.

SERVES Makes 2 dozen cookies

TIME 1½ hours, plus 8 hours chilling and 20 minutes cooling

Joe Froggers

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Joe Froggers, which are incredibly moist, slightly salty cookies, are so good in bakeries that we decided to develop our own recipe for them. Dissolving salt into our recipe’s rum and water gave the cookie its distinctive salty flavor. Many...

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