~ Best-ever gingersnaps Recipe ~

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       Title: Best-Ever Gingersnaps
  Categories: Cookies, S_living
       Yield: 4 Dozen
  
       1 c  Sugar
       2 c  Flour; all-purpose
     1/2 ts Salt
       1 ts Soda
       1 ts Cinnamon, ground
         ts Ginger, ground
     1/2 ts Cloves, ground
     3/4 c  Shortening
     1/4 c  Molasses
       1    Egg; slightly beaten
            Sugar
  
   Combine 1 cup sugar, flour, salt, soda, and spices;
   stir lightly. cut in shortening to resemble coarse
   crumbs. Stir in molasses and egg.
   
   Shape dough into 1" balls, and roll them in sugar.
   Place on ungreased baking sheets; bake at 350 degrees
   for 10 minutes. Remove from baking sheets immediately.
   (Cookies will firm quickly as they cool).
   
   SOURCE: Southern Living Magazine, sometime in 1979.
   Typos by Nancy Coleman. Submitted By NANCY COLEMAN On
   08-18-94
  
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