Description: Light, spicy crispy lembas.
Submitted by: Zoe on 2002-10-28 16:54:44
Serves: Several elves, two dwarves, or one hobbit.
Prep Time: 15 min
Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients
1 cup molasses1/2 cup butter
3 1/4 cups unbleached white flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda:
1/2 tsp. salt
1 Tbsp. ginger
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. cloves or allspice
Instructions
1. Mix flour, spices, salt, and soda in a medium-sized bowl and set aside.2. Put butter in large bowl. Heat the 1 cup of molasses until it is as hot as a cup of tea or coffee and pour it over the butter. Stir as the butter melts into the molasses.
3. Slowly mix dry mixture into molasses/butter mixture. The end result should be a firm cookie dough.
4. Shape dough into a ball and divide into quarters. Roll out one quarter at a time to 1/8" thick and cut out with cookie cutters. I generally make stars and moons and occasionally mushrooms for visiting hobbits. If you don't have any cookie cutters, just use the top of a goblet to cut out circles.
5. Bake at 350 degrees Farenheit for 8 to 10 minutes and cool on a flat surface.
These lembas will keep for over a month if sealed in a tin or smiliar container which will keep out moisture. They travel particularly well and are generally resistant to crumbling (unless sat upon by a troll).
6 Comments
I love it and by the way: u can put square shapes and in leaks for lembas
Sounds real good but arent you supposed to wrap them in leaves? =0)
Ok, so I made it. The smell of the molasses TURNED my stomach. I was about to not make them. But I did. They were quite bland. If someone really has to make them I say add raisins, that will really make them better.
I loved these lembas and if u put the honeybutter that is on the recipes page on them they taste great, but it wasn’t very good cooking them, he is right the smell of the mollases is not good at all and they do not taste good with raisins!!!
I didn’t have any molasses, so I substituted honey for it and it turned out really well. I did them for a family hike, and nobody could eat more than one. Anyways they pack well; I had made crochet lembas leaf wrappers( I invented the pattern) and lined the inside with plastic sheeting to keep out the crumbs.