Good molasses cookies
1 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ¾ | cup | Melted shortening |
| ¼ | cup | Molasses |
| 1 | cup | Sugar |
| 1 | large | Egg |
| 2 | teaspoons | Baking soda |
| 2 | cups | Flour (Not self rising) |
| ½ | teaspoon | Cloves |
| 1 | teaspoon | Cinnamon |
| 1 | teaspoon | Ginger (you can use less but we like the ginger taste) |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt |
Directions
Mix sugar and molasses into melted shortening. Add beaten egg. Sift dry ingredients and mix in. Chill dough about 1 hour. Form into balls about the size of a large walnut, roll in sugar.
Place balls on ungreased baking sheet and bake at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for 8-10 minutes. (Until set but not hard) Balls will be puffy when you remove from oven. Drop cookie sheet on surface so cookies fall. The cookies will crinkle and have a beautiful appearance.
Remove from sheet to cooling rack. Store in airtight container.
These use to disappear before they were cool when my kids were still at home--so I usually doubled the batch and hoped there would be some left for the freezer. Posted to TNT - Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by mreingarcia@... (Marilyn R Garcia) on Apr 23, 1997