{"id":1955,"slug":"lumberjacks","title":"Lumberjacks","description":"Lumberjacks are a cookie from the Old Sturbridge Village Cookbook, and they reflect baking from 1830s New England.","ingredients_raw":["1 cup caster sugar","1 cup white vegetable shortening or butter","1 cup dark molasses","2 eggs","4 cups sifted flour (not self-raising)","1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda","2 teaspoons cinnamon","1 teaspoon ginger"],"ingredients_norm":["superfine sugar","white vegetable shortening or butter","dark molasses","egg","flour","baking soda","cinnamon","ginger"],"steps":["Cream together the sugar and shortening.","Add molasses and eggs, and mix well.","Sift together the flour, spices, and bicarbonate of soda. Add this mixture to the egg-butter mixture, and mix well to make a dough.","Put ¼ cup additional white sugar into a small bowl.","Dip fingers into the sugar, then pinch off a ball of dough and roll it into the size and shape of a walnut.","Roll the cookie dough ball into the sugar and place on a greased cookie sheet.","Repeat the shaping and sugar-coating process with the remaining dough, spacing the cookies about 3 inches apart on the sheet.","Bake in a preheated 350°F (175°C) oven for 10–15 minutes.","Let cool completely—the cookies should be soft when cooled."],"categories":["Cookie recipes","Recipes for dessert","Recipes for cookies","Recipes using butter","Recipes using egg","Recipes using baking soda","Recipes using superfine sugar","Recipes using ground cinnamon","Recipes using all-purpose flour","Recipes using ground ginger","Recipes using dark molasses"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Lumberjacks","source_ref":"4599183","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Lumberjacks&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"0960137b42605bea668b955feed8c7348d4dc32da3c9149a820d2bc47a2adebc","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:07Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:07Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/lumberjacks"}