Photo of Molasses Spice Cookies
A look at sources on Christmas in the Antebellum south reveals that what enslaved Africans considered Christmas foods proved far from monolithic. For example, we know that folks in Virginia craved turkey and rural peoples in Louisiana basked in open pit barbecue. A source on 1850 Charleston, South Carolina shows that in that southern city enslaved Africans reveled in molasses which they purchased with proceeds from the sale of eggs, chickens, and pigs they raised. Many of the southern recipes that call for molasses today may have originated both from enslaved African cooks and during the Civil War when the confederate government rationed luxury items such as sugar, particularly in non-sugar producing states. Union blockades prevented the importation of sugar from Louisiana, Florida, and the Caribbean to ports in the Carolinians and Virginia. To meet the challenge of cooking during the Civil War and World War I and II sugar rationing, many recipes called for molasses. Here is a Molasses Spice Cookies Recipe that would be nice for company over the Christmas holidays: http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/molasses_spice_cookies/
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