Mom's Ginger snap cookies

By garry53

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup shortening (white Crisco)
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup molasses
• 1 egg
• 2 cups flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp cloves
• 1/2 tsp ginger
• 1/2 tsp salt

Details

Cooking time 10mins

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 375 degrees
beat by hand the first 4 ingredients until creamed, mix all your dry ingredients in a separate bowl and then combine with the wet ingredients. Chill dough, once chilled rough into 1 inch balls and place on a cookie sheet, bake 8-10 minutes