Ginger Snaps Recipe 5

Ingredients for Ginger Snaps Recipe 5

• 2 cups molasses
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup vegetable shortening
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 teaspoons powdered ginger
• 1 teaspoon powdered mace
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons boiling water
• Flour

Instructions

1. Cream vegetable shortening and sugar together, add molasses, spices, salt, soda mixed with boiling water and sufficient flour to make stiff paste.
2. Roll out thin, cut with small cutter, lay on vegetable shorteninged tins and bake in hot oven from five to seven minutes.
3. Sufficient for one hundred snaps.