welcome friends it is Sunday morning so we're going to do another one of our
post depression pre World War two recipes out of my favorite recipe and
last week when we did the date sandwich recipe an eagle-eyed viewer noticed on
the same page was a recipe for Jam jams now Jam jams
are a Newfoundland favorite so I went out and I got a package of Jam jams made
in Newfoundland and we're gonna see if this recipe is close in taste or not I
looked at a lot of jam jam recipes online and the one in this book is a
little bit different there might be some regional variation so we're gonna start
out by creaming this butter next in we're gonna cream some brown sugar next
is one egg now most of the recipes I found for this that originated in
Newfoundland had a spicing to them there would have been things like cinnamon
nutmeg mace just to give it more of a flavor this recipe doesn't have any of
those ingredients so I'm gonna be very interested to see how it compares now
next is a 1/2 cup of black molasses now I know a lot of people don't like the
flavor of blackstrap molasses I really do like it I like it in a lot of
different things and it is perfect for this type of recipe it really represents
Newfoundland so we'll mix that in
okay now I dissolve baking soda in boiling water and then apparently mix it
in now this is another case of not a lot of description of how to make this dish
so just sort of going by what I think it should be based on what I know about
cooking which isn't always right so we're gonna mix this in okay that that
tastes amazing it's really bitter now I love the bitter of blackstrap molasses
absolutely love it and I think that because we're gonna put a sandwich of
these two cookies together with some jam in between I think that bitterness is
gonna work really well with the sweetness from the jam so it now says
just mix in enough flour to make a dough
I'm not really sure how much that's gonna be I'm gonna say at least two cups
of flour so I'm gonna start out with this much we'll mix it in we'll see what
happens definitely needs more flour so I'm just gonna sprinkle in a bit more
and keep mixing okay so all the recipe tells me is to mix this together until
I've got a soft dough and I need to roll it out and cut it with a cookie cutter
now I'm at a disadvantage because I've never made these and I've never seen
them made so I'm not too sure what the dough should look like but I think this
is it now I started out with a really good dollop of flour in the jug in the
mixing bowl and then I just spooned it in I just used tablespoon put in a
little bit at a time and a little bit at a time until I reached this consistency
and with a recipe like this that's what you have to do so
let's roll this out and see what happens roll out thin okay just about ready to
put the first batch in the oven now like most recipes in these books this one
tells me absolutely nothing doesn't give me a temperature doesn't give me a time
just says when baked so I'm gonna choose 350 degrees and I'm gonna go for about
11 minutes and check on them and see what happens and while the first batch
bakes I'll keep cutting so I'm ready to go
when they come out okay Jam jams by special request by special
request now the first set I put in for 11 minutes they were too hard like they
were too okay because these I'm gonna say she didn't tell you how long no not
even how hot and so it just says to use a jam of your choice so I'm gonna do one
with strawberry and I don't know how much Jam to put in well these are pretty
soft you're right yeah so I do this
and gooseberry because gooseberry is if you've never had gooseberry jam it's
tart and wonderful making a mess pulling it out with stuff it's like getting the
first piece of pie for goodness sakes you should you should really try some
and there's video of Julie and in Nana Murphy ticking gooseberries to make this
gooseberry jam it's oh yeah no it's it's probably ten years old so I'm generally
liking Jam jams here okay let's see if I can get one that it's the right size so
there's the idea you put them together with some jam in the middle so I like
the original jam jam sure um but that one I can see why it's popular mmm well
Jam little happy goodness it's very softer mm-hmm
this is not gonna be a soft no not a soft at all so maybe you're only
supposed to cook them for like two minutes
well that's it um there's two things going here
I don't think these are rolled and cut I think these are made into a ball and
then cooked okay whereas these I think these are too thin but let's see so
these were cooked for eight minutes okay I can see my solution the didn't on
orders I thought they were gonna be no eight minutes now or maybe even less
first impression needs more Jam needs more jam this one has time this
cookie has a greater spice flavor to it that's the blackstrap molasses well okay
so that's the spice flavor that's the Blackstrap so this this is not made with
blackstrap molasses I don't even think molasses is on a list of ingredients no
so that's one of the fundamental differences that is that is yeah this
recipe here and and and and this one I did both though yes now well I really
liked the flavor of blackstrap molasses but if you were expecting this you would
be disappointed this you would be disappointed with this now I found a
bunch of recipes that were made with lard and no molasses just brown sugar
brown sugar and white sugar okay probably more like this now I contacted
purity who makes these in Newfoundland and asked about the jam and all they
would tell me was that it was Apple and they wouldn't say very clear that they
wouldn't say anything about it its proprietary it's secret and that's okay
exactly you have to do that you have to do that and these are good cookies I
could eat these it's good thing the only place you buy them in Toronto is at the
Newfoundland store in Parkdale so you could use any jam that you like if you
can try gooseberry and find gooseberry find gooseberry Applewood work you can
put almost anything in between anything you want honey you can just put honey in
between this might be too sweet I bet you just eat them yeah these ones and
you could just eat them anyway at the gym and they'd be a good a good
molasses spice cookie wouldn't a little salt on them
thanks for stopping by so you consumed
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