I'm a little miffed. First I go looking for a particular recipe that Jeph and his NGBF Steven have been nagging me for, and I can't find it. My recipes are pretty organized, so no telling where it's gone to. Merde. Call my Mum. Get her to recite it to me over the phone.
Then I go browsing through the thousands of photos on the hard drive and nope, no photos of these particular cookies. Bugger. So, like it or lump it, this post will be otherwise embellished. The top shot is me and our friend Bradley doing our annual Christmas baking, this year at home here (Conrad samples but otherwise gets out of our way). The bottom shot is the result of some of the baking: jam tartlets and butter tarts.
The recipe follows:
Mum’s ginger cookies
3/4 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup molasses
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
2 tsp ginger
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp clove
Cream the shortening and sugar. Add egg and molasses. Sift dry ingredients together. Add to wet mixture. Shape into 1” balls. Roll each in sugar. Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes. Don’t overbake. Cookies should be slightly soft when you remove from oven. Makes about 40 cookies.
Notes: I never have shortening on hand, so I just use unsalted butter. It makes for a crispier cookie, but still a good one! The recipe is easily scaled up.
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