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.
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