¾ cups shortening at room temperature (margarine or butter)
1 egg
1 cup sugar
¼ cup molasses
Sift together and stir in by hand (Do not use electric mixer)
2 cups flour
2 tsp soda
¼ tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
¾ tsp ginger
¾ tsp ground cloves
- chill dough at least 1 hour
- make balls size of walnuts and place on ungreased cookie sheet
- bake 10-12 min at 350 deg F
- allow to cool on cookie sheet for about a minute, then roll in confectioner’s sugar while still warm
- yield: 50 cookies
- Vera Trimpe Kuebbing, Ft Mitchell KY
I am advised that these cookies will be available in Brooklyn NY under the name of Vera's Spice Cookies. I will post the name and location of the restaurant if and when I get it.
ReplyDeleteVera's Spice Cookies can be found at Maybelle's Cafe
ReplyDelete502 Henry St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
Vera, our mother, would say one of the proprietors was a "shirttail relative". More exactly, she is Vera's youngest son's niece by marriage.