Easy Ginger Cookie Recipe

Ginger Cookie

Ginger Crinkles Recipe

Ingredients required
1 cup sugar
2/3 cups vegetable oil
1 egg
1/4 cup of molasses
2 cups sifted flour
1 1/4 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon Ginger

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Instructions for Ginger Crinkles Recipe

Add ingredients in given order and mix well. Chill for 1 hour. Roll into one-inch balls and dip in granulated sugar. Bake 8 to 10 minutes. Makes four dozen.

Ginger Creams Recipe

Ingredients required
1/2 cup shortening 1 cup sugar 1 egg
1 cup of molasses
1/2 cup milk
1 1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon Ginger
2 teaspoons soda
4 cups of flour

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Instructions for Ginger Creams Recipe

Drop by teaspoon of baking sheet. Flattened and round out with spoon. Jelly maybe put in centers or may sprinkle with sugar. Bake 10 to 15 minutes.

Soft Ginger Cookie Recipe

Ingredients required
1 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 cup of milk in which two teaspoons baking soda has been dissolved
4 1/2 cup sifted flour
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup molasses

Preheat oven 350 degrees

Instructions for Soft Ginger Cookie Recipe

Cream sugar and shortening. Add egg, molasses and milk. Add dry ingredients which have been sifted together. Chill overnight. Make small balls and press a little on greased cookie sheet. Make indentations and place small amount of jelly in center of the cookie. Sprinkle with sugar and bake 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from cookie sheet immediately. Makes 4 dozen.

Enjoy quick and easy recipes from an old cookbook made about fifty years ago from a rural community plus a recipe from the White House, Mrs.Gerald Ford, the First Lady's Strawberry Blitz Torte recipe about 1975. Also a recipe from the Vice Presidents wife, Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller.