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Ginger Cookies

This Ginger cookies recipe has an old fashioned molasses taste.

1 cup shortening
2 cups packed brown sugar
1 egg
1 cup molasses
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp lemon extract
4 cups flour
½ tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp ginger
1 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp cloves

Cream together shortening and sugar. Add egg and molasses, vanilla and lemon extract and beat till fluffy.

Mix flour, soda, spices and salt with fork in another bowl. Gradually add to creamed mixture. When blended put half the dough at a time wrapped in plastic wrap and chill in refrigerator for an hour or freezer for ½ an hour.

Shape into about 1 inch balls and dip the top half of ball into a small bowl of sugar and place on barely greased cookie sheets. Bake at 350 for about 12 minutes.

Do not let these brown as they burn easy. Leave the cookies on the pan to cool a bit as this lets them get firmer. I use a very thin spatula to remove cookies and let them cool on wire racks before bagging. I like to use 3 cookie sheets so I can be making new cookies on one pan, one in oven, and the third pan has cookies cooling down on it.

Makes about 4 dozen.

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