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butter white sugar flour baking soda salt ground ginger ground cloves ground cinnamon egg white vinegar molasses
Viewed: 22 - Published at: 9 years agoIngredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
- 1 cup white sugar
- 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon white vinegar
- 4 tablespoons molasses
Method
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Cream the butter and the sugar.
- Sift in the flour with the baking soda and add the salt.
- Mix together the ginger, cloves and cinnamon and set aside.
- Beat the egg, vinegar, spice mixture, molasses and flour into the creamed butter.
- Using your hands, shape the dough into balls one inch in diameter.
- Place them an inch apart on a baking sheet.
- Slightly flatten the balls with the wet prongs of a fork.
- Press again, with the prongs at right angles to the mark already made on the cookies, making a crosshatch pattern.
- The cookies should be about one-half inch high.
- Bake for 18 to 20 minutes.
- Let the cookies cool on the baking sheets for five minutes.
- Then remove them with a spatula and cool on a rack.
