They aren’t quite sugar plums dancing in visions, but sugar & spice cookies would be lovely for Christmas. Really, you can’t go wrong with a tag line of They’re spicy, they’re crisp…they’re sugar-coated.
Sugar n’ Spice Cookies
Mix together thoroughly:
3/4 cup soft shortening
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup molasses
Sift together and stir in:
2 cups sifted Gold Medal “kitchen tested” enriched flour (any all purpose flour will work)
2 tsp soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
3/4 tsp cloves
3/4 tsp ginger
Mix thoroughly. Form into balls the size of small walnuts. Place about 2 in apart on greased baking sheet.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes in quick moderate oven (375º). Roll in confectioners sugar while still warm.
Makes 4 to 5 dozen cookies (2″ in diameter)
Gram's Recipe Box 
I grew up on these cookies from my mother’s little brown wooden recipe box. It was the family favorite then and still is now with my grandchildren… I’m 74 now so this recipe is close to being that old…. maybe older? I cannot find it in Betty Crocker’s resources anywhere to learn when it was published? Does anybody know more?
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