Joe Froggers

Name: Joe Froggers
Yield: Makes 2 dozen cookies
Ingredients: 1/3 cup, dark rum (such as Myers's); 1 tablespoon, water; 1 1/2 teaspoons, salt; 3 cups (15 ounces), all-purpose flour, plus extra for rolling out dough; 3/4 teaspoon, ground ginger; 1/2 teaspoon, ground allspice; 1/4 teaspoon, ground nutmeg; 1/8 teaspoon, ground cloves; 1 cup, molasses (see note); 1 teaspoon, baking soda; 8 tablespoons, unsalted butter, softened but still cool; 1 cup (7 ounces), sugar

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Appears in Cook's Country February/March 2007

Desserts or Baked Goods

Lost Recipes

This Massachusetts spice cookie dates back 200 years and was originally made with seawater and rum.

SERVESMakes 2 dozen cookies

TIME1½ hours, plus 8 hours chilling and 20 minutes cooling

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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