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Gingerbread Dough
Posted by SusieQ on December 01, 1997 at 00:15:40:
Just found a recipe for Gingerbread dough for craft projects that
makes ornaments to hang or put in baskets that look and smell like
real cookies and our made with normal ingredients but bake up rock
hard and keep for years and smell great for years.
Use gingerbread dough and your favorite cookie cutters to make
gingerbread man garlands, gingerbread ornaments and houses.
Gingerbread dough for craft projects
3 tabs. shortening
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup molasses
1 teas. baking soda
3/4 cup water
3 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon of cloves, ginger and cinnamon
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Beat shortening and sugar together untill light and fluffy, stir
in molasses.
Sift the dry ingredients together.
stir them into shortening mixture in 3 parts alternating with a 1/4 cup of
water each time. DOugh will be stiff. Refrigerate overnight.
Cut dough into 3 pieces. Knead to warm dough slightly, then roll each
piece out about 1/4 inch thick.
Cut cookie out with a gingerbread pattern of your choice.
Use a drinking straw to punch hole in center if ornament will be hanging.
Plae cookies on cookie sheet and bake 20 minutes, turn oven off anl let cool
in oven.
Remove from cookie sheet and place on rack to dry for about 3 days to
totally harden. These cookies are purely for decorative purposes
and not to be eaten. If you wish you can seal cookies with 3 coats
of clear acrylic and decorate with colorful acrylic pains when dry.