Gingerbread Cookies
5 cups flour sifted
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp cloves
3 Tbsp cinnamon
1 tsp ginger
1 1/8 tsp. baking powder
1 cup shortening
1 1/4 cup sugar
1 egg beaten
1 cup light molasses
1/3 cup water
Mix together shortening, sugar, then add egg. molasses and water, then mix in the rest. Refrigerate for an hour or so (or overnight), roll and cut out. Bake at 350 for 8 – 10 minutes.
Joy Lundberg
December 8th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Thank you so much grandma, this is the best recipe and the greatest Christmas tradition from my childhood! Great memories.
Miss you and love you lots!!!
December 8th, 2009 at 5:29 am
We make gingerbread men every Christmas. After the gingerbread men are placed on a cookie sheet (before they are baked), we gently press in two brown or blue M@M’s for the eyes, then red, yellow, and green M&M’s (like a traffic light) for buttons.