Gingerbread

In this week of staying indoors Tilly and I have rediscovered our love of cooking together.

A while back I bought some of this Brer Rabbit Molasses. It's yummy just on it's own. A tablespoon full and it's a real little shot of iron that boosts you right up.

It's just what my bakeshop had. There are other molasses types available around the city. On the back is a nice recipe for Gingerbread Icecream Sandwiches. Tilly and I made the dough yesterday and put it in the fridge and then forgot all about it.


I remembered it last night and pulled it out and made two cookies. As in enough for one sandwich. I waited for it to cool and put some icecream on one and sandwiched them together. Really nice! Tilly licked the beaters of the dough but it didn't appeal to her. I think the ginger and cloves and orange peel flavours in there were a new experience she wasn't ready for. Maybe gingerbread isn't her thing. We were going to make gingerbread men, but our cookie cutter is somewhere else. We were going to make scones and I discovered I didn't have any milk..... I did have cloves and orange peel and ginger and molasses etc etc. Ha. Scones would have been much simpler ingredients wise, and Tilly would have eaten those. I'm not sure what to do with the extra dough. Can dough that has raw egg in it be frozen? Frozen cookie dough is not something I am experienced with, it's not an Australian classic. I want to keep this and share with my friends when we are no longer contageous. We probably already aren't contageous. So, can I freeze the dough?

Here they are. I made some up this morning. Tilly wasn't interested in trying them. Personally I think they are delicious. And like that they can go back into the freezer. The one I made last night I took out of the oven at exactly the right time and it was soft and lovely, the cookie that is. This time around I got distracted talking with Tilly about cows and milk after we saw a recipe in my Nigella cookbook. They were hardish, like gingersnaps. Still yummy however.

And yes, I am the world's worst photographer.