Joe Froggers are large, flat, chewy molasses cookies made with rum, warm spices — ginger, allspice, nutmeg, cloves — and a small amount of seawater, which was a Marblehead addition that balanced the sweetness and helped the cookies keep during long sea voyages. They are rolled thick and cut wide, originally the size of a […]

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Hermit cookies are dense, chewy bar cookies made from molasses, brown sugar, warm spices — cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg — raisins, and sometimes nuts or dried fruit. The dough is shaped into logs on a baking sheet, baked until set but not crisp, then cut crosswise into rectangular bars while still warm. The result is […]

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