Cook Like Grandma with these Bacon Fat Gingersnaps
As if cookies weren’t good enough, adding some bacon fat to them takes them to an entirely different level. The smoky and sweet flavors of this cookie really stand out when you use spices like cinnamon and ginger. Best of all, you are making the most of the items you have around you. So don’t throw that bacon grease out – try this cookie recipe that grandma used to make!
Bacon Fat Gingersnaps
- ¾ cup rendered bacon fat (from cooking 2 pounds bacon), chilled
- 1 cup white sugar, plus extra for rolling
- ¼ cup molasses
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons salt
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- ½ teaspoon ground cloves
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- In a large mixing bowl, combine all the ingredients and mix until a stiff dough forms. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and chill for two hours.
- With hands, pick up small amounts (about a tablespoon amount) of cookie dough and roll into small balls.
- Drop the dough into a small bowl of sugar and roll the dough balls to coat with sugar.
- Place on a cookie sheet and bake the batch 10 minutes at 350°.
- Once cool, store cookies in an airtight container.
Happy Baking
Tess Pennington is the author of The Prepper’s Blueprint, a comprehensive guide that uses real-life scenarios to help you prepare for any disaster. Because a crisis rarely stops with a triggering event the aftermath can spiral, having the capacity to cripple our normal ways of life. The well-rounded, multi-layered approach outlined in the Blueprint helps you make sense of a wide array of preparedness concepts through easily digestible action items and supply lists.
Tess is also the author of the highly rated Prepper’s Cookbook, which helps you to create a plan for stocking, organizing and maintaining a proper emergency food supply and includes over 300 recipes for nutritious, delicious, life-saving meals.
Visit her web site at ReadyNutrition.com for an extensive compilation of free information on preparedness, homesteading, and healthy living.
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