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. ❤
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.
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
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 🤣❤️
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 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 🥰
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 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 🎄
Wishing you moments of solace this warm Christmas season.... as I always get when I watch your videos. Continue doing your incredibly inspirational baking and historical story telling. I truly appreciate your genuine spirits and good hearts.
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.
Went to Historic Williamsburg VA for the first time in 1982 and fell in love with it! My husband made a half moon shaped board out of plywood. I stapled faux boxwood all over it and put apples on the nails that he had pounded in from the other side and a pineapple in the middle tied in with wire. I have put that over my front door since Christmas 1982 and it is hanging out there right now!!
Wow! This is so cool. I went to an estate sale and bought two aluminum gingerbread soldier, Cookie molds that were cast reproductions of wooden molds that were used in the colonial Williamsburg bakery. I've been trying to figure out what recipe to use and you just dropped this video right in my lap. Thank you so much. I will use this for the molds that I have. Also, thank you for putting all of the written information in the discussion, that's a big help.
Look at you, all festive with your red hat and sontag/wrap! I recently made molasses cookies for my grandkids. They are so used to cookies that are basically sugar without other flavors. Molasses gave them something different, and I got thumbs up from them as well. Thank you for all of the work you put in. God bless and keep you both safe and well.
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 bet the whole cabin was perfumed by the lovely smell of the gingerbread cookies. Thank you, Justine for the recipe. When you were putting the molasses the liquid form for a bit, a deer. Also, love your measuring cups, so cute.
Was just in Colonial Williamsburg last weekend...this weekend is the Illumination and will be very crowded. We'll pop back to see the Christmas decorations on houses on an 'off' weekend. Love this time of year ❤ Raleigh Tavern for gingerbread.
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.
Sometimes I complain about walking to the freezer in my detached garage to access the Costco bag of chicken nuggets I keep in there. This channel is helping to fix me
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?
Since I live about 50 miles from CW and am an annual pass holder, I make a regular trip there. One of the first stops is the Raliegh Tavern Bakery to buy a baker's dozen of the Ginger Cakes. If I'm lucky, I'll arrive just as a batch comes out of the wood-fired oven. They're never better than when warm just out of the oven.
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. ❤
Loved the cookies. Can you give the ratio of water to powdered sugar for the glaze please? By the way, I think those are horses 😉
Thank You! And Merry Christmas ♥️🎄
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 ❤
I agree♥️
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!
These are the wholesome videos that the world needs
I love this video it brought me peace I love the cabin in the woods in the snow
What a lovely Period outfit for the season! Your channel has come such a long way. Thank you for preserving our American Heritage! 🥰
I hope everyone had a great thanksgiving
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.
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
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.🍪🍬🍭🎄
Love those measuring cups!
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 🤣❤️
Gingerbread looks yummy.
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.
Great video - as usual - natural ingredients, peaceful surroundings, superbly shot. What else can one ask for? Answer: Nothing. 👍
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 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 🥰
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. 🥶
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 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 🎄
Wishing you moments of solace this warm Christmas season.... as I always get when I watch your videos. Continue doing your incredibly inspirational baking and historical story telling. I truly appreciate your genuine spirits and good hearts.
Nice set of 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.
I love gingerbread of all kinds!
My great grandma worked at the bakery. so a staple of my childhood was going to visit and get Gingerbread! Love this!
Thank you for brightening my evening after a very long day! Watching your videos I'd do comforting. ❤
Ahhhhh so festive! These cookies look absolutely phenomenal, Justine! 😃
Went to Historic Williamsburg VA for the first time in 1982 and fell in love with it! My husband made a half moon shaped board out of plywood. I stapled faux boxwood all over it and put apples on the nails that he had pounded in from the other side and a pineapple in the middle tied in with wire. I have put that over my front door since Christmas 1982 and it is hanging out there right now!!
I make this same colonial williamsburg recipe every Christmas! Delicious!
Love the peaceful atmosphere
❤❤I always look forward to these timeless recipes, They are so enjoyable to watch. Thank You for sharing this yummy Recipe Barbara West Virginia.
Wow! This is so cool. I went to an estate sale and bought two aluminum gingerbread soldier, Cookie molds that were cast reproductions of wooden molds that were used in the colonial Williamsburg bakery. I've been trying to figure out what recipe to use and you just dropped this video right in my lap. Thank you so much. I will use this for the molds that I have. Also, thank you for putting all of the written information in the discussion, that's a big help.
Look at you, all festive with your red hat and sontag/wrap! I recently made molasses cookies for my grandkids. They are so used to cookies that are basically sugar without other flavors. Molasses gave them something different, and I got thumbs up from them as well. Thank you for all of the work you put in. God bless and keep you both safe and well.
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
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 bet the whole cabin was perfumed by the lovely smell of the gingerbread cookies.
Thank you, Justine for the recipe.
When you were putting the molasses the liquid form for a bit, a deer. Also, love your measuring cups, so cute.
My toddler class made gingerbread men today! Looks yummy 😋
Love your measuring cups and cookie cutter.
I'd love the pattern for the shawl you're wearing 😊
Was just in Colonial Williamsburg last weekend...this weekend is the Illumination and will be very crowded. We'll pop back to see the Christmas decorations on houses on an 'off' weekend. Love this time of year ❤ Raleigh Tavern for gingerbread.
These videos are so serene.
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.
Nice video, keep up the good work.
I have such fond memories of these cookies from my childhood!
I just love you both, what you show us is such a gift.❤ Now I have to make some gingerbread. MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Yum! I love the measuring cups! Very cool. ❤
The cookies look delicious The milk topping is very interesting 😊🤩
I enjoy your videos so much.So relaxing,educational and just good. The gingerbread men look delicious.
Thanks for sharing!❤ Love your videos ❤!
WHERE IS HER RECIPE ???
LOOKS DELICIOUS 😋
THANKS IN ADVANCE…
They look very good!
Very similar to my aunts ginger puff cookies, as she called them. I will try these. Thank you
Butter makes everything better! 😁
You ain't wrong !
I was looking for hints in the cookies. 😄
Oh! It’s snowing! Love your channel!
Sometimes I complain about walking to the freezer in my detached garage to access the Costco bag of chicken nuggets I keep in there. This channel is helping to fix me
Your cabin is so cozy..I love it..🎄
Love the measuring cups.. very cool!👍😎❤
Great video as always thank you ☺️
I'll bet those cookies would be great with some homade ICE CREAM!
Will have to try that one. Looks spoon licking good !
Awesome as always
Justine it's cold and snowy here in Virginia too. I love Gingerbread
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?
Since I live about 50 miles from CW and am an annual pass holder, I make a regular trip there. One of the first stops is the Raliegh Tavern Bakery to buy a baker's dozen of the Ginger Cakes. If I'm lucky, I'll arrive just as a batch comes out of the wood-fired oven. They're never better than when warm just out of the oven.
This is definitely a Christmas winner! They look so yummy 😋
I miss making cookies like this. I need to do it as an adult for Christmas!
Another great episode Justine! PS I love those measuring cups, they're awesome. ☺️
It sounds like a good recipe! Love your Christmas look❤️🇨🇦
In such a chaotic world, your videos are very soothing.
I love watching your cooking shows and you always look so cute
This video is especially beautiful. You look so pretty, and the house glows with warmth. I could almost smell the gingerbread 😊
Your outfit looks so cozy, especially your toque!
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Lovely video as usual.❤❤❤I’m more partial to sugar cookies than gingerbread but these loo so good that I want to give them a try.
You look so absolutely charming, almost like Mrs Santa Claus! 🤶 🧑🎄
So peaceful❤
The fiddle music at the end is magic!! 🎻
It’s HARD making cookies 🍪 without a free standing mixer! 👍🏻 They look delicious 😋!
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I love gingerbread cookies!
Gotta make a batch
😁👍 yup i think i can do that 🤔made gingerbread cookies 1 time 😅 but going to try this 1 😀. Thanks too ✨❤️🔥
Great looking cookies!
Wish the videos could be longer. So soothing 😊
Such a lovely cozy video
I can't wait to hear what your surprise is (as hinted at on Facebook)! I hope everyone's guess is right!
Looks yummy!! Mish mish cookie needs a tail, meow! you guys are so cute!!
Justine the cookies are not only cute but look delicious.
Thanks for the video it looks tasty Happy holidays❤
Thank you ❤
I love everything about your videos ❤
You look stunning in red! ❤ this channel so much!
Ooohou look beautiful Justine 😊❤
Love these videos, sooo soothing and comforting. But, not able to use them for ASMR because of the music at the end - gives quite the startle. 🙀 😂
I bet you’re really enjoying the fireplace now that it’s cold. Felt bad for you during the summer
Loved the video❤❤
How fun!