Ginger Cookies

Family favorite, yummy.

Ingredients:

• 12 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs, well beaten
• 1/2 cup molasses, use Mother's do not use unfiltered
• 2 teaspoons vinegar
• 3 3/4 cup flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 3 teaspoons ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves

Directions:

Blend the butter and sugar until creamy in an upright mixer. Add the beaten egg, molasses and vinegar.

Sift the dry ingredients together using a fork. Add to the creamed mixture.

Form into 3/4-inch balls and then roll in granulated sugar. Dough will be sticky, so rinsing off hands frequently helps.

Place 12 balls per cookie sheet on a well-greased cookie sheet at 350-degrees for 10 minutes. Watch carefully. Cookies will just start to puff and crack: removed from oven. Allow to sit on cookie sheet a minute before removing to cooling rack; as they are soft.