This is another traditional holiday cookie in my family. It is listed in my mom’s recipes as “Auntie Kit’s Gingerbread Men” but I’ll just call it “Gingerbread Men” since you won’t have the foggiest clue who Auntie Kit is. These are the best gingerbread men I’ve ever had. But I might be biased.
Ingredients:
- 2/3 cup butter (for best flavor) or margarine
- 2/3 cup brown sugar
- 2 tsp. ginger
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1 tsp. nutmeg
- 1 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1 egg
- 3/4 cup molasses
- 3 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
Instructions:
Combine all the ingredients in the list from the butter through the egg and beat thoroughly. Add the molasses and mix thoroughly.
Sift together 3 cups all purpose flour, 1 tsp baking powder and 1 tsp. soda. Add to first mixture and mix well.
Chill dough in refrigerator for at least 2 hours. I like to mix cookies one day and bake them the next day. (chill over night)
Roll about 1/4 of dough at a time. Keep remaining dough chilled.
Roll on pastry cloth dusted with 1/2 confectioner’s sugar and 1/4 flour sifted together. Confectioner’s sugar keeps cookies crisp.
Roll dough 1/8 inch thick. Cut with gingerbread man cookie cutter. Decorate with raisins if you are into that kind of thing. Or if you, like me, think that raisins are the devil’s evil joke on humanity, you can use those little silver BB looking things that they sell in the baking aisle.
Place on greased cookie sheets.
Bake in moderately hot oven 375 F 8 to 10 minutes.
You really need to time these because they don’t have any visible indication of being done.
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