Gingerbread recipe

Gingerbread Recipe

Batter:
7 cups plain flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1/3 cup shortening
1 1/2 cup molasses
2/3 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup cold water

Spices (all powdered)
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp cloves
1 tsp allspice
2 tsp ginger

1. Mix shortening, molasses and brown sugar
2. Add water
3. Sift in all batter ingredients
4. Add spices
5. Refridgerate 2 hours
6. Roll and cut out

before they were baked. They sort of put on weight during the baking

poor gingerbread man

FGM busy at work on the gingerbread men

chocolate chip cookies, these were done with butter, usually i use a recipe that uses shortening so this was my first time trying this recipe. they came out ok but one batch stuck horribly to the tray and i had to dump them. Heart pain, since they were chock full of walnuts and m and ms.

our gingerbread men for christmas 04