This is from my friend- when I first tried these I couldn’t believe how good they tasted. They look great- very hard to mess up. They are perfect round circles with “cracked” top. But soft in middle with nice crunch on the outside. I can’t say enough about these. Not as crisp as a ginger snap but same sort of flavour. Kids like to help with these- you make into round balls and roll around in sugar. I only include recipes on this site that are 10 out of 10- and this one certainly makes the grade!

Tracey’s Ginger Cookie Recipe
4 cups flour 2 1/2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp. each ginger, cinnamon, ground cloves
extra sugar for rolling balls in
3/4 cup shortening
3/4 cup butter
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup molasses
In a large bowl mix together flour, soda, cinnamon, cloves and ginger
In a second bowl mix together remaining ingredients ( except the extra sugar for rolling)
Combine and mix thoroughly
Roll into balls and coat with sugar
Bake at 375 degrees for 12 minutes or until just set and brown on the bottom ( this is exactly 12 minutes on my oven)
Note! Don’t flatten cookies, bake as balls and they spread themselves
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Posted by Lisa - Unschooling Mom as Favourite Recipes, General Homeschool and Unschooling at 9:01 PM EST

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Starting to do your Christmas and Holiday baking? I have a couple of EXCELLENT cookie recipes to share, the one below is my gandmothers cshortbread cookie recipe and also a recipe for FANTASTIC ginger cookies.

Simply the BEST Shortbread Cookie Recipe

I am happy to share this shortbread cookie recipe. Every year my grandmother made batches and batches of this recipe- using her mother’s Scottish shortbread recipe. There must be a zillion calories in it. Sharing the recipe for some reason makes me feel connected to my great grandmother and reminds me of the Christmas’s we all got a cookie tin filled with shortbread. My grandmother died almost 3 years ago but making this shortbread makes me feel close to her.

I used to make the shortbread cookies when I owned a retail store and gave the shortbread away to customers. They ALWAYS commented that it was the best shortbread they had ever tasted- and could they have the recipe? I must have given away a hundred of copies of the recipe. Here it is for you to enjoy!

Grandma Brown’s Shortbread Cookie Recipe

1 Cup Corn Starch
1 Cup Rice flour
1 Cup All Purpose Flour
! Cup Icing Sugar
1 lb butter ( yes- you are reading correctly- a whole pound of butter! )
optional- 1tsp vanilla

Preheat oven to 400F. ( Youwill tunr it down to 350 when you put cookies in)
Blend the dry ingredients into the softened butter. (I used a food processor to blend with no problems)

Spread the batter into 2 pie plates or rectangular 8 x11 pan.

Turn oven down to 350F.
Bake for 20-25 mins- check often and remove from oven when golden or pale brown. Prick with fork all over surface. Cut when still warm ( the shortbread get very hard and will be impossible to cut when cooled).
Store in cool dry place .

If you have recipe you would like to share- please post in comments section.

Posted by Lisa - Unschooling Mom as Favourite Recipes, General Homeschool and Unschooling at 2:43 PM EDT

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