Great Grandma James' Molasses Cookies

Submitted by Nicole Sizemore

6 Cups flour
1 cup sugar
1 cup buttermilk
1 tsp. salt
1 cup butter
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp nutmeg
3 eggs
1 tsp.cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp. ginger
1 cup molasses

Sift together dry ingredients, except soda, in a bowl. In a separate bowl cream sugar, butter vanilla and eggs. Add molasses and mix well. Then add dry ingredients a cup at a time. Dissolve soda in buttermilk and add to mixture. The mixture will be a bit wet and sticky. (You might need to add a few table spoons of flour because of elevation but I didn't and they turned out OK)

Chill mixture at least 2 hours. Flour your work space well and add about a soft ball size worth of dough to it, flour the rolling pin and gently roll it out to an 1/8" thick. Add more flour if it starts to stick. Cut with cookie cutters.

Place on ungreased backing sheet. Decorate cookies then bake 8-10 minutes at 375 degrees. Don't over bake.