Colonial Williamsburg's Gingerbread Cookies Recipe (makes roughly 40-50 small cookies) 1 cup sugar 4 cups of unbleached flour 2 teaspoons ginger 1 teaspoon nutmeg 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon salt (or use salted butter) 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda 1 cup butter, melted 1/2 cup evaporated milk 1 cup unsulfured molasses a dash of vanilla extract a dash of lemon extract Combine the sugar, ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, baking soda and salt in a bowl. Mix well. Add the melted butter, evaporated milk, molasses and extracts. Mix well. Add the flour 1 cup at a time, stirring all the while. The dough will be stiff and hard to mix which is normal for gingerbread. If you find that it is too sticky to roll out add up to 1/2 cup of additional flour. Roll out on a floured sugar until it is 1/4 inch thick. Cut out or cut and stamp. Bake in greased cookie sheets in a preheated oven. Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes. Be careful as it's easy to overcook gingerbread. They really only need 10 minutes. Allow to cool and set for at least 5 minutes before handling. *This recipe has definitely been adapted for the modern cook due to the addition of evaporated milk, baking soda and vanilla extract (which existed pre 1830 but was extremely expensive therefore uncommon). This recipe is more of a homage to the past than an accurate historical recipe. We've made a few other gingerbread recipes taken from historical cookbooks if you are looking for an accurate recipe. You may find them linked below. ♥ 1824 recipe: th-cam.com/video/UMO0eEkUa8U/w-d-xo.html 1823 recipe: th-cam.com/video/9s_tfWg1sSQ/w-d-xo.html 1803 recipe: th-cam.com/video/XnkQeZzyy7Q/w-d-xo.html 1832 recipe: th-cam.com/video/d1z5DtuzQBs/w-d-xo.html
I panicked there for a minute when I reached the end of the video and there was no receipt with measurements! 😆 Thank you for including it here - can’t wait to bake up a batch. ❤
In the late 50's, when I was at primary (elementary/prep) school, I loved to get home (walking - no school run) and discover what mam had baked for me. This has brought back wonderful, loving memories.
Videos featuring housekeeping and homemaking would also be enjoyed! No indoor plumbing would make for some challenges. I've really enjoyed getting an understanding of the cooking tools and methods used in the 1800s.
Pretty much what my Mom called molasses cookies. She used to bake the cut out cookies at Christmas and we would decorate them with cinnamon candies,raisins and white icing. The aroma in the kitchen was dreamy. She grew up during the depression and gingerbread was a Eastern Ky. mountain favorite. One recipe was a gingerbread baked in a pan, like cake. Her grandmother lived in an old log house,one room central, With a big hearth and always a pot of beans cooking,then you went out on a porch and there were steps on either end that went to separate rooms upstairs, one for the girls and one for the boys. Me and my brother loved the stories my Mom would tell,and sometimes she'd sing a song about a Mail train wreck that happened long ago in 1903 in Virginia, called the Wreck of Old 97.🍪🍬🍭🎄
Your first Christmas as a married couple ❤🥰 May it be merry and beautiful! Definitely going to try this recipe, I’m a sucker for ginger anything… that’s why I married one 🤣❤️
It's beginning to look like a cozy Christmas cabin! I love your cookies and the start of decorations for the holiday. Thanks, Justine! I'll catch you and Ron tomorrow at the Chew and Chat. Be blessed, Rayfields! xoxo
I live in Williamsburg Virginia and worked for Colonial Williamsburg for years. I love the this recipe. Here in Williamsburg and the Raleigh Tavern, they are called Ginger Cakes. Thank you for sharing the recipe. Merry Christmas 🎄
These jinger bread cookies looks tasty! We have learned something new! We like the measuring cups! In the last two weeks in Kentucky we have had 4 inches of snow but it melted quick.Rebecca and David Back.
おはようございます☺️ お部屋の飾り 服 食器 暖炉の薪が燃える音 全てがお洒落です✨ Good morning Room decoration Your clothes Tableware used The sound of firewood burning in the fireplace Everything about your house is stylish.
I was so surprised to see the gingerbread man cookie cutter- I grew up with the exact same one. My mother’s family are genetically Irish Scottish and English and were true Yankee cooks having lived in Cape Cod in Ma since they came over here. Our family always cooked with molasses, making gingerbreads both cake and cookies and other things like what was know as Indian Pudding a cornmeal and molasses baked “pudding”. The cookie cutter used in the video has been in our family as long as I can remember, same size, same shape of his head hands and feet. I never knew it was a traditional design although I should have guessed. Thank you for your relaxing, calm and informative content. Be well everyone 🥰
My question is if this lovely couple live full time in their little cabin, I’m jealous by the way, or do they just use it for educational/TH-cam videos. Along with how hard is it to find everything you use in the cabin. From your cooking ingredients to the items like candles, measuring cups, and such.
Justine had to use some muscle to make the cookie dough. Always loved how wonderful the house smelled when I made gingerbread cookies. Love the red outfit!
Your cute little cabin looks amazing adorned in christmas decorations, it's like it was made for them! The gingerbread man is huge lol. Loved seeing the cups, I've never seen ones like those! I'd always heard people just used a drinking cup or tea cup. Maybe that was common in the poorer houses and these are for the more wealthy?
Aww, she didn't show how she cooked them. Did she use her outside oven or one of those wonderful pots or stands that she has? That's one of my favorite parts to watch.
Hey Justine, it's a horse. The tails on sleigh or carriage horses were bobbed. "Bells on bobtail ring making spirits bright. What fun it is singgggg a sleighing song tonight, Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way".
They look delicious & the video was so enjoyable. I am concerned about the measuring cups. Are they pewter? If so, are they pre 1974? Prior to 1974 pewter contained lead.
I haven't watched your videos in awhile and I'm sorry but lately I been thinking about you when I am rushing to fast to get something done thinking ok Justine she goes slow with the flow be more like that no worries calm down 😂😂😂❤
🌩 🌩Lightning arced our radio during a storm, windows were opened. At the time the radio was not turned. Electrician friend told us the arcing was caused by a lightning strike close enough to cause minor damage. Once hit the radio turned itself on and would never turn off so we threw it away. I guess it's why mom said always close the windows and doors during a thunder storm.
Colonial Williamsburg's Gingerbread Cookies Recipe (makes roughly 40-50 small cookies)
1 cup sugar
4 cups of unbleached flour
2 teaspoons ginger
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt (or use salted butter)
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup evaporated milk
1 cup unsulfured molasses
a dash of vanilla extract
a dash of lemon extract
Combine the sugar, ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, baking soda and salt in a bowl. Mix well. Add the melted butter, evaporated milk, molasses and extracts. Mix well. Add the flour 1 cup at a time, stirring all the while. The dough will be stiff and hard to mix which is normal for gingerbread. If you find that it is too sticky to roll out add up to 1/2 cup of additional flour. Roll out on a floured sugar until it is 1/4 inch thick. Cut out or cut and stamp. Bake in greased cookie sheets in a preheated oven. Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes. Be careful as it's easy to overcook gingerbread. They really only need 10 minutes. Allow to cool and set for at least 5 minutes before handling.
*This recipe has definitely been adapted for the modern cook due to the addition of evaporated milk, baking soda and vanilla extract (which existed pre 1830 but was extremely expensive therefore uncommon). This recipe is more of a homage to the past than an accurate historical recipe. We've made a few other gingerbread recipes taken from historical cookbooks if you are looking for an accurate recipe. You may find them linked below. ♥
1824 recipe: th-cam.com/video/UMO0eEkUa8U/w-d-xo.html
1823 recipe: th-cam.com/video/9s_tfWg1sSQ/w-d-xo.html
1803 recipe: th-cam.com/video/XnkQeZzyy7Q/w-d-xo.html
1832 recipe: th-cam.com/video/d1z5DtuzQBs/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for the recipe❣️ May Jesus bless you & your family this Christmas! 🩷✝️🙋🏻♀️
These look delicious Justine, I love your "Kitchenaid" mixing arm! Interesting no eggs.
I panicked there for a minute when I reached the end of the video and there was no receipt with measurements! 😆 Thank you for including it here - can’t wait to bake up a batch. ❤
Your videos are not only educational but soothing. I love how you keep the natural noises and do not add any music to the video until the end. ❤❤
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Oh yes me too. You Justine are a natural. I also love you in red ❤
In the late 50's, when I was at primary (elementary/prep) school, I loved to get home (walking - no school run) and discover what mam had baked for me. This has brought back wonderful, loving memories.
I love videos like this where it’s either snowing and/or raining because it’s mentally soothing
Videos featuring housekeeping and homemaking would also be enjoyed! No indoor plumbing would make for some challenges. I've really enjoyed getting an understanding of the cooking tools and methods used in the 1800s.
I don't think anyone will be disappointed to get these as presents. They look so yummy!
I had taken my daughter to CW when she was little. We bought the cook book and made their ginger cookies once we got home. Amazingly delicious.
Pretty much what my Mom called molasses cookies. She used to bake the cut out cookies at Christmas and we would decorate them with cinnamon candies,raisins and white icing. The aroma in the kitchen was dreamy. She grew up during the depression and gingerbread was a Eastern Ky. mountain favorite. One recipe was a gingerbread baked in a pan, like cake. Her grandmother lived in an old log house,one room central, With a big hearth and always a pot of beans cooking,then you went out on a porch and there were steps on either end that went to separate rooms upstairs, one for the girls and one for the boys. Me and my brother loved the stories my Mom would tell,and sometimes she'd sing a song about a Mail train wreck that happened long ago in 1903 in Virginia, called the Wreck of Old 97.🍪🍬🍭🎄
These are the wholesome videos that the world needs
What a lovely Period outfit for the season! Your channel has come such a long way. Thank you for preserving our American Heritage! 🥰
My great grandma worked at the bakery. so a staple of my childhood was going to visit and get Gingerbread! Love this!
I love this video it brought me peace I love the cabin in the woods in the snow
I hope everyone had a great thanksgiving
These look fun to make. And you look nice and warm in your outfit. Red is a good color on you!
You know it's cold when you have to wear a hat IN the house. 🥶
Gingerbread looks yummy.
I love watching your videos this is such a wonderful recreation of how it was long ago thank you
Your first Christmas as a married couple ❤🥰 May it be merry and beautiful! Definitely going to try this recipe, I’m a sucker for ginger anything… that’s why I married one 🤣❤️
It's beginning to look like a cozy Christmas cabin! I love your cookies and the start of decorations for the holiday. Thanks, Justine! I'll catch you and Ron tomorrow at the Chew and Chat. Be blessed, Rayfields! xoxo
I remember getting some of these cookies at Williamsburg when I was a kid. They were the best gingerbread cookies ever! Thank you for this fun video!
I live in Williamsburg Virginia and worked for Colonial Williamsburg for years. I love the this recipe. Here in Williamsburg and the Raleigh Tavern, they are called Ginger Cakes. Thank you for sharing the recipe. Merry Christmas 🎄
Love those measuring cups!
These jinger bread cookies looks tasty! We have learned something new! We like the measuring cups! In the last two weeks in Kentucky we have had 4 inches of snow but it melted quick.Rebecca and David Back.
Thank you for brightening my evening after a very long day! Watching your videos I'd do comforting. ❤
I love gingerbread of all kinds!
Yum! I love the measuring cups! Very cool. ❤
My toddler class made gingerbread men today! Looks yummy 😋
おはようございます☺️
お部屋の飾り
服
食器
暖炉の薪が燃える音
全てがお洒落です✨
Good morning
Room decoration
Your clothes
Tableware used
The sound of firewood burning in the fireplace
Everything about your house is stylish.
Woah, those measuring cups take up a lot of room in the cupboard, I would think! They would also last longer than glass pyrex. LOL
Ahhhhh so festive! These cookies look absolutely phenomenal, Justine! 😃
Great video as always thank you ☺️
I was so surprised to see the gingerbread man cookie cutter- I grew up with the exact same one. My mother’s family are genetically Irish Scottish and English and were true Yankee cooks having lived in Cape Cod in Ma since they came over here. Our family always cooked with molasses, making gingerbreads both cake and cookies and other things like what was know as Indian Pudding a cornmeal and molasses baked “pudding”. The cookie cutter used in the video has been in our family as long as I can remember, same size, same shape of his head hands and feet. I never knew it was a traditional design although I should have guessed. Thank you for your relaxing, calm and informative content. Be well everyone 🥰
I'd love the pattern for the shawl you're wearing 😊
They look very good!
Nice set of measuring cups 👍
My question is if this lovely couple live full time in their little cabin, I’m jealous by the way, or do they just use it for educational/TH-cam videos. Along with how hard is it to find everything you use in the cabin. From your cooking ingredients to the items like candles, measuring cups, and such.
These videos are so serene.
❤❤I always look forward to these timeless recipes, They are so enjoyable to watch. Thank You for sharing this yummy Recipe Barbara West Virginia.
The fiddle music at the end is magic!! 🎻
Love the measuring cups.. very cool!👍😎❤
Butter makes everything better! 😁
You ain't wrong !
Love your measuring cups and cookie cutter.
It sounds like a good recipe! Love your Christmas look❤️🇨🇦
Justine had to use some muscle to make the cookie dough. Always loved how wonderful the house smelled when I made gingerbread cookies. Love the red outfit!
I love gingerbread cookies!
I was looking for hints in the cookies. 😄
Thank you ❤
I'll bet those cookies would be great with some homade ICE CREAM!
I can't wait to hear what your surprise is (as hinted at on Facebook)! I hope everyone's guess is right!
Nice video, keep up the good work.
Thanks for sharing!❤ Love your videos ❤!
WHERE IS HER RECIPE ???
LOOKS DELICIOUS 😋
THANKS IN ADVANCE…
Will have to try that one. Looks spoon licking good !
I love watching your cooking shows and you always look so cute
The cookies look delicious The milk topping is very interesting 😊🤩
thank you for this recipt
Awesome as always
I miss making cookies like this. I need to do it as an adult for Christmas!
This video is especially beautiful. You look so pretty, and the house glows with warmth. I could almost smell the gingerbread 😊
You look so absolutely charming, almost like Mrs Santa Claus! 🤶 🧑🎄
Gotta make a batch
Your cute little cabin looks amazing adorned in christmas decorations, it's like it was made for them! The gingerbread man is huge lol. Loved seeing the cups, I've never seen ones like those! I'd always heard people just used a drinking cup or tea cup. Maybe that was common in the poorer houses and these are for the more wealthy?
Such a lovely cozy video
Oh! It’s snowing! Love your channel!
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Looks yummy!! Mish mish cookie needs a tail, meow! you guys are so cute!!
Justine it's cold and snowy here in Virginia too. I love Gingerbread
It's time to get a restraining order! That is truly concerning. Stay safe guys. 💖
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Great looking cookies!
😁👍 yup i think i can do that 🤔made gingerbread cookies 1 time 😅 but going to try this 1 😀. Thanks too ✨❤️🔥
Ooohou look beautiful Justine 😊❤
Your outfit looks so cozy, especially your toque!
This was great thanks
Thanks for the video it looks tasty Happy holidays❤
I love everything about your videos ❤
This seems easier than the recipe I’ve been using. I’m going to make this and compare the two.
How fun!
Question about white flour. Has it always been around or did it evolve from wheat four? Thanks!
Not a fan of gingerbread, but I would try these. They do look yummy.
Aww, she didn't show how she cooked them. Did she use her outside oven or one of those wonderful pots or stands that she has? That's one of my favorite parts to watch.
You look stunning in red! ❤ this channel so much!
Awesome 👍
Loved the video❤❤
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Looks yummy Justine 👍
Hey Justine, it's a horse. The tails on sleigh or carriage horses were bobbed. "Bells on bobtail ring making spirits bright. What fun it is singgggg a sleighing song tonight, Oh, jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way".
Love your outfit
What did they use for evaporated milk?
They look delicious & the video was so enjoyable. I am concerned about the measuring cups. Are they pewter? If so, are they pre 1974? Prior to 1974 pewter contained lead.
I bet you’re really enjoying the fireplace now that it’s cold. Felt bad for you during the summer
Justine, show that dough who is the boss!! Lol!!!
I am coveting your measuring cups!
I've always wondered, is historic pewter safe to use?
did they have evaporated milk during this time period?
How do you bake the cookies on the cookie sheet with the open fire?
Bagus
You used Nutmeg?
I would love to know where do you get your cooking utensils and other items
I haven't watched your videos in awhile and I'm sorry but lately I been thinking about you when I am rushing to fast to get something done thinking ok Justine she goes slow with the flow be more like that no worries calm down 😂😂😂❤
🌩 🌩Lightning arced our radio during a storm, windows were opened. At the time the radio was not turned. Electrician friend told us the arcing was caused by a lightning strike close enough to cause minor damage. Once hit the radio turned itself on and would never turn off so we threw it away. I guess it's why mom said always close the windows and doors during a thunder storm.