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    Eggs Cookie 48 Servings

    INGREDIENTS

    3/4 c Butter or margarine
    1 c Sugar
    1 Egg
    1/4 c Molasses
    2 c All-purpose flour
    2 ts Baking soda
    1/4 ts Salt
    1 ts Ground cinnamon
    1 ts Ground cloves
    1 ts Ground ginger
    Additional sugar

    INSTRUCTIONS

    From: <kclemens@engin.umich.edu>
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 93 13:02:08 -0500
In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar. Add egg and molasses; beat
well. Sift together dry ingredients; gradually add to creamed mixture. Mix
well. Chill the dough. Roll into 1-1/4 in. balls and dip into sugar. Place
2 in. apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Bake at 375 degrees F for about 10
minutes or until set and surface cracks. Cool on wire racks. Makes 4 dozen.
(From the Dec/Jan '92 issue of Country magazine. It was submitted by
Francis Stoops of Stoneboro, Pennsylvania.)
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