Recipe - Good Molasses Cookies

Three fourths cup Melted shortening
One fourth cup Molasses
1 cup Sugar
1 lg Egg
2 teaspoon Baking soda
2 cup Flour (Not self rising)
One half teaspoon Cloves
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
1 teaspoon Ginger (you can use less but
we like the ginger taste)
One half teaspoon Salt

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 810 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
homeso 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@juno.com (Marilyn R Garcia) on Apr 23, 1997