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1989 2Nd Place: Great- Gingerbread Cookies

A home-style 1989 2Nd Place: Great-Grandma's Gingerbread Cookies made with Vegetable Shortening, Sugar, Eggs, Cold Water, and Baking Soda. Serves 36. Save it, add the ingredients to your shopping list, and cook it tonight.

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup
• 1 cup
• 3
• 1/2 cup
• 2 tsp
• 1 cup
• 1
• 1/2
• 1
• 1/2

Method (preview)

1. 1

   Preparation time: 30 minutes Chilling time: Overnight Baking time: 10 minutes

2. 2

   Cream shortening and sugar in mixing bowl, beat in eggs, one at a time.

3. 3

   Mix water and baking soda in small bowl until dissolved.

4. 4

   Add baking soda mixture and sorghum to butter mixture.

5. 5

   Sift 5 1/2 cups of the flour, the spices and salt together.

6. 6

   Blend into dough.

7. 7

   Divide dough into 4 balls.

8. 8

   Wrap in plastic wrap.

9. 9

   Flatten and refrigerate overnight.

10. 10

    Heat oven to 350 degrees.

11. 11

    Roll 1 portion of dough out at a time on lightly floured surface.

12. 12

    Cut into desired shapes.

13. 13

    Bake on a greased cookie sheet until puffed, 10 to 12 minutes.

14. 14

    Do not overbake.

15. 15

    When cool, decorate with buttercream frosting and/or candies as desired.

16. 16

    Ann Smith of Plainfield won second place, and described how her gingerbread men left Bohemia in 1872 and immigrated to the United States.