medicinal cookies by learning herbs

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Are you looking for a healthy treat that you can bake with your children this holiday season? Well, Hailey and Rowan and I had fun making these ginger cookies from Lesley Tierra’s A Kid’s Herb Book. We love making cookie-cutter cookies, and this recipe made with sucanat and fresh ginger becomes a warming, nourishing treat.Ginger is a wonderful warming herb that adds a nice spicy flavor while also aiding digestion. It’s great to add it to soups, teas, cakes and pies as well as cookies this time of year when the air is growing colder. It will warm our insides.For the cookies you will need:

1 stick of butter (1/2 cup)

3/4 cup of sucanat (or white sugar if you like)

2 eggs

2 1/4 cups whole wheat flour

1 tsp. baking soda

1 and 1/2 tsp. powdered ginger

1 tsp. cinnamon

1/4 tsp. ground cloves

1/2 tsp. salt

1 Tablespoon fresh, grated ginger.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Blend the butter and sugar together until creamy. I just do this with a spoon, mashing them together.

Beat in 2 eggs. I used an electric mixer for this, but am sure you could do it with some heavy mixing with a regular spoon.

Sift the flour and spices into the bowl with your other ingredients. Stir.

Stir in the tablespoon of fresh grated ginger root.

Chill the dough for 1/2 hour in the refrigerator.

Roll out the dough (about 1/4 inch thick) and use cookie cutters or your hands to create ginger cookie shapes.

Bake on buttered cookie sheet for 16 – 20 minutes.

Enjoy your healthy holiday treat, or encourage your children to give them as gifts to your friends and family! It’s always fun for them to be able to give something they made themselves.

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