====== Molasses Cookies ======
So, while I was searching for the whoopie pie recipe, I ALSO found this little gem. It's hand written in my terrible penmanship, looks like maybe form when I was 12, I was somewhat addicted to these. We always called them ,glasses cookies, but I think everybody else calls them ginger snaps? But, I think of ginger snaps as crunchy and these, when done right, are very chewy.

===== Ingredients =====
  * 2 cups flour
  * 1/2 t salt
  * 1 t cloves (ground, I assume)
  * 1 t ginger (def, dry, ground ginger)
  * 3 t baking soda
  * 3/4 cup crisco
  * 1 cup sugar
  * 1 egg
  * 1/4 cup molasses

===== Directions =====
  - sift the dry ingredients together
  - cream the shortening in a mixer gradually adding the sugar until light and fluffy (huh, seriously that was 'sift together most of the dry ingredients...)
  - blend in the egg and molasses
  - stir in the flour mixture
  - make 3/4" to 1" balls and roll in sugar
  - place on ungreased cookie sheets 3" apart
  - flatten with fingers and sprinkle on more sugar (get that cool coarse sugar!)
  - bake for 8 to 10 minutes at 350


originally submitted by mike on Feb 22, 2022
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