Gingerbread Men Recipe
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Ingredients: ½ Cup Sugar (brown or granulated)
½ Cup Shortening
1 Egg
½ Cup Molasses
1 ½ tsp. Vinegar
3 Cups Flour
½ tsp. Baking Soda
½ tsp. Salt
½ tsp. each – Ginger, Cinnamon, Allspice
¼ tsp. Cloves
Raisins
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Directions:Cream sugar and shortening together.
Add egg, molasses, and vinegar, and bet well.
Add flour, soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, allspice, and cloves.
Chill dough for at least 1 hour.
Then roll out on lightly floured board to 1/8” thickness.
Use cookie cutters to cut gingerbread men/women shapes and add raisins for eyes and buttons.
Bake 350° for 15 min. or until light brown.
Optional: Decorate with colored icing. |
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Number Of
Servings:12 - 6 |
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Time:2+ hours, depending on how long you let the dough chill and if you decorate the cookies. |
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Notes: Beginning in 1963, it was a tradition in our home to take a family trip downtown during the Christmas season to see the stores and businesses decorated for Christmas. Our favorite part of the trip was to stroll through the Bank of the Southwest where the lobby was transformed into a Dickens themed Christmas setting. Bank employees were dressed in Victorian era clothes and there were various holiday themed displays set up for viewing. As you exited the bank, everyone was treated to Wassail and Gingerbread, which quickly became a favorite holiday treat for our family. We loved the Gingerbread and Wassail tradition and carried it on at home long after the bank shut down. Every year, even to this day, my family spends a day during the Christmas season baking Gingerbread Men and drinking Wassail.
It has also been a tradition in my home that every time we pulled the pan of Gingerbread men out of the oven, one would have escaped! The kids would of course go on a hunt for the missing Gingerbread man. He usually showed up in their bedroom, sleeping on their bed or playing with their favorite toy.
Number of Servings: 6 to 12
Preparation Time: 2+ hours, depending on how long you let the dough chill and if you decorate the cookies.
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