Posted by: Gretchen Jameson

This recipe comes from my dear friend, Lori. We bake cookies every holiday! And these are scrumptitious.

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup butter (or 1 stick of Fleischman's margarine and 1 stick of butter)
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup molasses
• 2 c flour
• 2T Baking soda
• 1/4 t salt
• 1 t cinamon
• 3/4 t cloves
• 3/4 t ginger

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Cream butter and sugar (3-5 minutes), add egg and molasses
3. Stir together dry ingredients and add to cream mixture
4. Roll into balls and then roll in sugar mixed with 2T of shredded orange peel (this step is especially great at Christmas!)
5. Bake 12 minutes, cool on a wire rack