Gingerbread
GINGIES ( https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/72443/images/brnkey.jpg Recipe) Soft and puffy ... true old-fashioned ginger cookies.A happy tradition at the famous Girard College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The boys hoard them ... old grads long for them.
Mix together thoroughly ...
[*]⅓ cup soft shortening
[*]1 cup brown sugar
[*]1½ cups black molasses
Stir in ...
[*]½ cup cold water
Sift together and stir in ...
[*]6 cups sifted GOLD MEDAL Flour
[*]1 tsp. salt
[*]1 tsp. allspice
[*]1 tsp. ginger
[*]1 tsp. cloves
[*]1 tsp. cinnamon
Stir in ...
[*]2 tsp. soda dissolved in 3 tbsp. cold water
Chill dough. Roll out very thick (½″). Cut with 2½″ round cutter. Place far apart on lightly greased baking sheet. Bake until, when touched lightly with finger, no imprint remains.
TEMPERATURE: 350° (mod. oven).
TIME: Bake 15 to 18 min.
AMOUNT: 2⅔ doz. fat, puffy 2½″ cookies.
Public Domain, Betty Crocker
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