Swedish ginger cookies

60 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity	Measure	Ingredient
1	cup	Butter
1½	cup	Sugar
1	large	Egg
1½	tablespoon	Grated Orange Rind
2	tablespoons	Dark Corn Syrup
1	tablespoon	Water
3¼	cup	Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
2	teaspoons	Baking Soda
2	teaspoons	Cinnamon
1	teaspoon	Ground Ginger, Or:
		More To Taste
½	teaspoon	Ground Cloves

Directions

Yield: 5 Dozen Cookies. Cream the butter and sugar until light. Add the egg, orange rind, corn syrup and water blending well. Sift the dry ingredients together and add to the butter mixture. Chill the dough thoroughly. Roll out very thin, about ⅛-inch and cut with cookie cutters. Bake, on ungreased cookie sheets, in a preheated 350øF oven for 8 to 10 minutes. Do not over bake or the cookies will burn. From The Wellesley Cookie Exchange Cookbook by Susan Mahnke Peery Copyright 1986 Courtesy of Rich Harper.