Chewy Ginger Cookies
from: Taste of Homes {mom}
3/4 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup molasses
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cups flour
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. ginger
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. cloves
Cream shortening and sugar. Add egg, molasses and vanilla. Mix well. Combine dry ingredients add to creamed mixture and mix well.
Roll 1 inch balls in sugar. Put on ungreased pan. Flatten with glass cup.
Bake at 375
Makes 4 dozen
My mom is the best cook I know...
My mom loves to cook. It's what she does best. She loves searching for new recipes just to see what it tastes like {and to find the very best}. Growing up--mom was contantly baking cookies, canning food from our garden, baking bread and homemade salsa, and filling our home with sweet aromas {that I loved}. And now that I'm all grown up and out of the house, I still enjoy going home to see what she's made for us to eat! The purpose of this blog, is to record our family's favorite recipes...and to preserve them for our posterity. I want them to know that cooking is important to us. That it's getting lost in this busy-fast paced and convenient world. I want my family to build talents and abilities that only cooking can bring. So I hope this cookbook will help. Bon Appetit.