Grandma's Ginger Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 1/2 cups shortening
- 1/2 cup molasses
- 2 eggs
- 4 cups flour
- 4 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon cloves
- 2 teaspoons ginger
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees
- Combine all the dry ingredients and set aside.
- In your mixer cream sugar and shortening together. Slowly add in the molasses and eggs, one at a time.
- Add dry ingredients 1/2 cup at a time until well incorporated.
- In a separate bowl add 1/3 cup of sugar.
- Using a cookie dough scooper, make 12 balls of cookie dough and roll them in the sugar.
- Place on cookie sheet and bake 10-12 minutes.