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Cookies, Nora's Gingerbread Cookies Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 cup molasses
1 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 cup hot water
6 cups flour
1/4 tsp. cloves
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. ginger
Directions:
Directions:
Mix molasses and shortening in a pot and simmer for 15 minutes. Cream sugar, egg and vanilla. Dissolve baking soda in hot water. Add mixture to sugar and egg mixture; mix and add to molasses mixture. Mix dry ingredients and add to wet mixture. Knead and roll out with rolling pin. Cut with cookie cutters (gingerbread men and women.) Bake in a 375º oven for 10 minutes. Do not grease cookie sheets. Cool and decorate with icing.

 

 

 

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