ginger creams

Recipe 12

Ginger Creams

1 c. white sugar

1 c. shortening

1 c, dark molasses

1 c. boiling water

1 T. ginger

1 t. salt

1 heaping t. soda

Flour to make soft dough. When done sprinkle with powdered sugar.

This recipe does not call for an egg, but I may add one. It would make the cookies "fluffier" like these. Bake at 350 degrees also. My husband loves gingerbread anything. This recipe will be tried around the holidays, it's very festive and the fumes from the oven are heavenly!

My grandma loved the holidays. She decorated her little house on the hill to its best! Every shelf and table was filled with mementos and trinkets. She went through a phase of buying shelf units. I bet she had 6 crammed into her living room. "She needed a place to put things", she would say. Even if it was hard to walk around, it didn't matter, she needed to show her things. Make something this holiday season you have never made before, it could be a new tradition!

love, krissy girl