Something sweet

Ginger Snap Cookies

Serves 72 $0.14 est. / serving

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Estimated ingredient cost$10.37For the whole recipe · ingredients used

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YOUR TIME IN THE KITCHEN

Make something good.

01
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
02
Mix together shortening, brown sugar, egg and molassas in large bowl, set aside.
03
Sift remaining ingredients together in seperate bowl.
04
Add sifted flour mixture to molassas mixture slowly.
05
Chill 1 hour or more.
06
Take a piece of dough and shape it into a ball roughly the size of a walnut.
07
Dip ball into shallow dish of granulated sugar and press down flat with two fingers.
08
Place on a greased cookie sheet about 3 inches apart, sugar side up.
09
Sprinkle with cold water.
10
Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes

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Foodista / Common Pile

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Photograph

Photo of Moravian Molasses Cookies — Foodista. Source-provided contributor credit: By Foodista member purplehousedirt

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Ingredient photographs (8)

Brown sugar
File:Sugar Brown.jpg — Donovan Govan.. Image taken by me using a Canon PowerShot G3 (reference 7921).
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Egg
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Salt
File:Table salt (53686886134).jpg — Conall from Downpatrick, Northern Ireland. table salt. Original embedded copyright notice: CONALLMCCAUGHEY
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Flour
File:All-Purpose Flour (4107895947).jpg — Veganbaking.net from USA. All-Purpose Flour
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Baking soda, dried
File:No name sans nom baking soda.jpg — Michael Francis McCarthy. https://www.flickr.com/photos/sagamiono/4299196396/
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Cinnamon, ground
File:Cinnamon powder.jpg — Quatrostein. Own work
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Ginger
File:Ginger Root.jpg — Sanjay Acharya. Own work
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Sugar
File:Bowl of white sugar.jpg — Douglas P Perkins. Own work
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