Old-Fashioned Molasses Icebox Cookies

My grandmother used to always have a tin of these cookies at her house. It was a cookie staple.

Later, I found out that this is a really old- fashioned recipe that was actually my great grandmother’s!
Thank you Jennie Lewis for these molasses icebox cookies.

Great-Grandmother was a great baker in her day. Here’s a link to another one of her recipes:

With the molasses ice box cookies, it’s best to slice them very thinly so they bake and are nice and crisp.

Then, eat them with a slab of cheese whiz piled on top. Seriously. Don’t knock it till you try it!