My All Time Favorite Ginger Cookies
Ingredients
Scale
- 3/4 cup Crisco (don’t use butter or margarine, Crisco is the way to go, trust me)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/4 c molasses
- 2 cups flour
- 1 T ginger
- 2 t baking powder
- 1 t cinnamon
- 1/2 t salt
- granulated sugar
Instructions
- Beat Crisco, egg, sugar and molasses until creamy
- Sift together flour, ginger, baking powder, salt and cinnamon in a separate bowl
- Add flour mixture slowly to Crisco mixture, beating after each addition
- Roll teaspoon size balls of the dough in sugar and bake on an ungreased cookie sheet at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes