Abigail's Gingerbread Men

prep time:: 15 min
total time:: 1 hr

Meredith Cough

from Darreby and Michael

ingredients

1 cup brown sugar
2 sticks softened butter
1 egg
1 cup dark molasses
1 TBSP. vinegar
4 cups flour
1 tsp. soda
1 tsp. salt
8 heaping tsp. ginger
1 heaping tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ground cloves or allspice
Pinch of cayenne pepper if you like it spicy

directions

1
Beat butter until creamy and slowly beat in sugar. Add egg, molasses and vinegar. Combine dry ingredients and add to butter mixture. Dough should be stiff and not too sticky; add flour as needed. (Depending on the weather and your aura and the sign of the moon, you may need to add a lot of flour before the dough stops being gooey.)
2
Refrigerate in two batches in plastic wrap. When cold, roll out pretty thin, cut with a cookie cutter and bake at 350° F. for 8 – 10 minutes.

notes

Note: Roll out directly on cookie sheet or best on parchment paper. The dough is often too soft to lift unbaked cookies. (Also note – if the dough gets hard to work with, sticky, etc. when you are cutting your cookies – put the sheet outside to get cold for a minute and it will stiffen right up.)

Source: Meredith Cough