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Promised recipes - sort of....

Open letter to eldest daughter: Dear Purl Gurl, I know I promised you Great Grandmother's Pearl's Chokecherry Syrup recipe but I just can't find it. The paper I thought was the recipe turned out to be your GGGAunt Mae's pickle recipe but the amounts are torn off. So I offer you the following recipes: Great-grandmother Pearl's Ginger Cream Cookies, Mrs Stapleton's Hamburger Relish and Green Tomato Jelly, Marj's Bread and Butter Pickle Recipe. Please don't be mad because you can't make your 100 things in a 1000 days all because of my poor memory..... Ginger Creams - Great Grandmother Pearl 1 c sugar 1/2 c molasses 1/2 c dark Karo 1c butter 1c sour milk 2 eggs 1t soda 1/2 t cinnamon 1/2 t ginger 1/2 t nutmeg 1/2 baking powder 1/2 t salt 3 1/2 cups flour Chill dough 1 hour. Spread on cookie sheet cut in square of oblongs or add more flour and cut with cutter.  Bake 10 to 15 minutes. (There was no temperature given - I'm sure that