Title: Best-Ever Gingersnaps
Categories: Dessert Cookie
Yield: 4 Dozen

1	c	Sugar
2	c	Flour; all-purpose
1/2	ts	Salt
1	ts	Soda
1	ts	Cinnamon, ground
	ts	Ginger, ground
1/2	ts	Cloves, ground
3/4	c	Shortening
1/4	c	Molasses
1		Egg; slightly beaten
		Sugar

Combine 1 cup sugar, flour, salt, soda, and spices; stir lightly. cut in shortening to resemble coarse crumbs. Stir in molasses and egg.

Shape dough into 1" balls, and roll them in sugar. Place on ungreased baking sheets; bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Remove from baking sheets immediately. (Cookies will firm quickly as they cool).

SOURCE: Southern Living Magazine, sometime in 1979. Typos by Nancy Coleman.

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