Cookies!!

May 25, 1906
Ginger Cookies

Here is still another recipe for ginger cookies:
Sift together three cups flour, one cup sugar, a dessertspoonful each of soda and ginger and one-half teaspoonful salt. Heat in saucepan one cup molasses with one-half cup shortening; when hot add four dessertspoonfuls hot water. Cool slightly and stir into dry mixture. Add quickly two well-beaten eggs. Mix well. Drop by spoonfuls a little distance apart on buttered tin. When pan is full, flatten each cookie with bottom of measuring cup, well floured. Bake in moderate oven. One-half recipe is sufficient.

I love it - I would try it except I'm not exactly sure what bake in moderate oven would translate to...