1989 2nd Place: Great Grandma's Gingerbread Cookies Recipe

  1. Preparation Time: 30 min
  2. Chilling Time: Overnight
  3. Baking Time: 10minutes
  4. 1.
  5. Cream shortening and sugar in mixing bowl, beat in Large eggs, one at a time.
  6. Mix water and baking soda in small bowl till dissolved.
  7. Add in baking soda mix and sorghum to butter mix.
  8. Sift 5 1/2 c. of the flour, the spices and salt together.
  9. Blend into dough.
  10. Divide dough into 4 balls.
  11. Wrap in plastic wrap.
  12. Flatten and chill overnight.
  13. 2.
  14. Heat oven to 350 degrees.
  15. Roll 1 portion of dough out at a time on lightly floured surface.
  16. Cut into desired shapes.
  17. Bake on a greased cookie sheet till puffed, 10 to 12 min.
  18. Don't overbake.
  19. 3.
  20. When cold, decorate with buttercream frosting and/or possibly candies as desired.
  21. Sorghum gives these cookies a special flavor, but molasses can be used as a substitute.
  22. gingerbread men left Bohemia in 1872 and immigrated to the United States.
  23. Smith's great-grandmother, "Babicka" Novak, lived in a small Czech-American town in South Dakota where Smith's mother grew up in the 1920s.
  24. At Christmas time, her great-grandma would give her neighbors Old World gingerbread men, reindeer and rocking horses.
  25. "One year when Great-grandma delivered the cookies, she brought along her teenaged grandson, who was visiting from a small ethnic Czech community in Nebraska," Smith wrote.
  26. "Introductions made which day over the watchful eyes of the gingerbread men eventually lead to wedding bells for my parents a decade later.
  27. Great-grandma Novak probably had planned this all along!"

vegetable shortening, sugar, eggs, water, baking soda, sorghum, flour, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, salt

Taken from cookeatshare.com/recipes/1989-2nd-place-great-grandma-s-gingerbread-cookies-61401 (may not work)

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