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GINGIES ( 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 ...
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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