3 steps to a molasses orgasm.

Step 1: Roll'em into a ball.

Step 2: Toss'em into the oven. They should get flat like this.

Step 3: Toss some powdered sugar on and indulge.

Haven't made the family recipe in a while. Bad Jeff. First time yesterday in a new oven. Perfection. 5 dozen. Between 6 people last night and a handful of people at my mom's morning coffee clutch in Greendale this morning, I have one dozen left.

I just had one while writing this post. Orgasm. Come on over...

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It's a first place lemon meringue pie!

Not this one - this is a Von's pie which we had for dessert a couple nights while I was preparing dinner for Bill and Marilyn Walker in Westlake Village (see post below).

In 1939 during his junior year at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, Bill and his schoolmate won 1st-place in a baking contest. They won with a lemon meringue pie.

Bill and Marilyn obviously haven't tasted my molasses cookies.

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Chapter 2 - "Molasses"; Notes from Lost Man's Lane Cabin, by Richard Le Breton.

Aunt Ella's Molasses Cookies. It's a family recipe on the Ircink side. Got a little domestic in the cabin in the woods this past weekend.

I can't share the recipe with you - or I'd have to kill you. (There's already one person who has the recipe that I regret giving it to. Did it as a Christmas gift. Hers suck and I pray she'll eat one someday and choke on it.)

I've turned molasses eschewers into fans. 6 dozen gone in 20 minutes at the office. One couple fought over them during their divorce settlement. A mother was in such a fit of ecstacy upon tasting one that her water broke prematurely (3 days early). The baby was instantly addicted to the cookies. It's said that in Gnawbone one man threatened another man with a Bowie knife for taking the last molasses cookie from a batch I had delivered to a tavern there.

They just may be the answer to "peace on Earth, good will toward Men".

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