Recipe - Favorite Molasses Cookies

1 cup Sugar
1 cup Shortening
1 cup Molasses dark; plus
3 tablespoon Molasses dark
Three fourths cup warm water
1 Egg
3 teaspoon Baking soda;add to water
1 teaspoon Salt
2 teaspoon Ginger
2 teaspoon Cinnamon
1 teaspoon Cloves

Cream sugar and shortening, add molasses, then water, egg and remaining
ingredients. Add enough flour to make a nice thick dough. Chill several
hours or overnite. Roll out and cut into 3" rounds. Bake at 400 for 8 min.
or till done. Sprinkle with sugar. Lorna Brown, Prodigy Food & Wine Board

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