Soft Old-Fashioned Molasses Cookies

Wednesdays are movie day at our house where a bunch of our friends come over from our Religion and Film class to watch the film every week. Becky and Wes are so hospitable and invited everyone to stay for dinner a couple of times. Tonight Becky made these fabulous Molasses Cookies that just so happen to be fairly healthy! I was just DYING at how delicious they were. She thought they didn't come out that great because she milled the barley into flour herself and it didn't get fine enough but I thought they were just wonderful! Not entirely vegan but sometimes we need to be able to make exceptions, it's only healthy :)
Recipe
1 C vegetable oil
1 C dark molasses
1 egg
1/2 C honey
5 C barley flour
1/2 t salt
2 t soda
2 t cinnamon
1 1/2 t ginger
1/2 t cloves
Mix oil, molasses, honey and egg. In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, salt, soda, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. Mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients a little a time until completely smooth. Chill the dough for tow hours, it handles better that way according to the recipe. Shape into 1/2'' balls and place onto a greased cookie sheet about 2'' apart from one another to allow to spread while baking. Bake at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes. This recipe will make about 5 dozen so you may want to halve it.

Enjoy,
<3 Dani