Ingredients

  • ⅓ cup shortening
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 1 small egg
  • ½ cup molasses
  • ½ cup water
  • 2 cups flour
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon nutmeg
  • ½ teaspoon cloves
  • ½ teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon ginger
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1 ½ tablespoons milk
Categories
Cookies
Keywords
Cookies

Directions

Mix shortening and sugar. Add egg, molasses and water. Mix thoroughly.

Sift dry ingredients. Stir in. Chill dough.

Drop by spoonfulls on ungreased sheet, 2 inches apart.

Bake 400 degrees, about 8 minutes or until no imprint remains when touched lightly. Frost while warm, spread with pastry brush or spatula.


Notes

These turn out best if cooked on a flat silver cookie sheet. My bumpy airbake sheet doesn't allow them to grip the edges and they spread flat like cake. Mom's black cookie sheets always burned them.

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