Grannie's Touchdown Ginger Cookies
Heat oven ot 350
1 Cup sugar
3/4 cup shortening
1 egg
1/4 cup molasses
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ginger
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons soda
2 cup flour
Cream sugar and shortening, add eggs and molasses and beat well. Sift dry ingredients together and add to egg/molasses, mixture.
Mold into small balls and roll in granulated sugar. Do not flatten.
Bake for 10 minutes.
These cookies were always my favorite. She made them look so perfect, they were often mistaken for "store-bought." In fact, she left in a snit from one of her home-makers meetings because one of the other ladier wouldn't put her cookies out because they only wanted "home-made" cookies...
I bought her a cookie jar one time as a joke. It said "home made" on one side and "store bought" on the other. She LOVED that cookie jar, and it was almost always on the "home made" side when I came to visit. :)