Gingerbread (for Cookies Or A Gingerbread House)

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup molasses
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ginger
• 1 teaspoon allspice
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon clove
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1/2 cup margarine
• 1 egg, beaten
• 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

Recipe

• 1 in a medium saucepan, heat sugar, molasses, ginger, allspice, cinnamon, and cloves to boiling, stirring occasionally.
• 2 remove from heat; stir in soda (it will foam up).
• 3 stir in margarine till melted.
• 4 with a fork, stir in egg, then flour.
• 5 on a floured surface, knead dough till mixed. divide dough in half, wrap half with plastic wrap; set aside.
• 6 roll half the dough, with a rolling pin, slightly thinner than 1/4 inch.
• 7 cut with cutters.
• 8 bake at 325f on a cookie sheet for 12 minutes; cool on a wire rack.
• 9 makes about 3 dozen 3" gingerbread people.
• 10 note: we make houses by cutting out our house design (the 2 sides of the roof, two sides, a front and a back of the house) on graph paper, and then placing the graph paper shapes on the dough and cutting the dough shapes out with a knife.