Olave Pickles

A sweet green tomato and onion pickle seasoned with mustard, pepper, allspice and cloves.

A sweet green tomato and onion pickle seasoned with mustard, pepper, allspice and cloves.

Molasses cookies made with coffee and spices, shaped into balls and pressed with sugar before baking.

Spiced Apple Sauce Cookies made with applesauce, raisins, and chopped nuts, yielding about six dozen cookies.

A simple Apple Butter recipe flavored with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and allspice.

A C&H Sugar applesauce cake made with brown sugar, raisins, walnuts, and warm spices.

Soft and spiced molasses cookies made with ginger, cinnamon, and cloves.

An old fashioned handwritten molasses cookie recipe flavored with ginger, cinnamon, and cloves, with part of the baking instructions missing.

A handwritten 1970 recipe for Nellie and Cressa’s Spice Cookies—with dark molasses, warm spices, and the choice to bake them now or chill the dough for tomorrow.

A typed Peppernuts recipe from Christmas 1925—tiny spiced cookies and a century-old glimpse into holiday baking from the recipe box.