The random number generator brought me back to the “Cooky Primer” with “Molasses Jumbles” on p. 10.

These were a basic, drop cookie with a ton of molasses flavor.

This was a super-basic cookie recipe with brown sugar, butter, flour, salt, baking soda and molasses. Like most recipes, cream the sugar and butter, then add the molasses. In a separate bowl, measure out the flour, baking soda, and salt, and then add that alternately with some warm water.

Then these are just dropped by the spoonful several inches apart on a cookie sheet. They’re baked, and cooled. That’s it!

The cookies turned out very tender — so tender that when I stacked them in a tupperware, a couple days later the ones on the bottom were sticking together and to the bottom of the tupperware!

My husband loves molasses cookies, and I hear these were pretty good. I’m not the biggest fan — I like molasses well enough, but felt like they needed something else. I’m not sure what though … maybe some spice? Or something to add some texture?

Bottom line: These were tender, molasses-y cookies. Very easy to make, and yummy according to my molasses-loving husband. I could certainly be talked into making them again, but I’d probably rather have the highly-spiced Joe Froggers that I made a couple of weeks ago.