Grandma's Recipes for Mother and Daughter

by American Molasses Company

GINGER SNAPS

3 cups sifted enriched flour

1½ teaspoons soda

1 teaspoon salt

3 teaspoons ginger

½ cup shortening

1 cup sugar

½ cup GRANDMA’S MOLASSES

½ cup plus 1 tablespoon water

Heat oven to 475° F. (very hot). Sift together first four ingredients. Cream shortening and sugar. Add molasses. Add water alternately with flour mixture. Put dough through pastry bag or drop ½ teaspoonful dough at a time onto greased cooky sheets. Flatten cookies ⅛ inch thick by stamping with bottom of glass covered with a damp cloth. Bake 6 minutes or until cookies have lightly browned. Cool. Store in tightly closed tin box.

YIELD: 8 to 9 dozen cookies.