Name: Soft Ginger Cookies with Orange Glaze
Ingredients: 1 c Buttermilk; 2 ts Baking soda; 3/4 c Vegetable oil; 1 c Sugar; 1 c Dark molasses; 2 Eggs; 3 3/4 c All purpose flour; 1 ts Salt; 2 ts Ground cinnamon; 1 ts Ground ginger; 1 ts Grated nutmeg; 1/2 ts Ground allspice; 1/2 ts Ground cloves; 2 c Plus 1 Tbsp confectioners sugar; 1 tb Butter (very soft); 1/4 c Orange juice; 2 ts Grated orange zest; 1/2 ts Vanilla extract; ds Salt

To think that everyone in heaven is equally knowledgeable, equally holy, equally capable or enjoying God, is to argue that the progress we make now on earth is irrelevant to our heavenly state. But we are often exhorted to do things now precisely because it will build up and increase for us treasure in heaven. Not everyone responds to these commands in the same way or to the same degree or with the same measure of faithfulness. Thus people will enter heaven at differing degrees of holiness, love, and joy. All will be subject to increase and expansion based on the depth and measure of our development here on earth. What we do and know and achieve now, by God’s grace, will have eternal consequences.

Sam Storms

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Dairy, Vegetables, Eggs		Biscuits	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	c	Buttermilk
2	ts	Baking soda
3/4	c	Vegetable oil
1	c	Sugar
1	c	Dark molasses
2		Eggs
3 3/4	c	All purpose flour
1	ts	Salt
2	ts	Ground cinnamon
1	ts	Ground ginger
1	ts	Grated nutmeg
1/2	ts	Ground allspice
1/2	ts	Ground cloves
2	c	Plus 1 Tbsp confectioners sugar
1	tb	Butter (very soft)
1/4	c	Orange juice
2	ts	Grated orange zest
1/2	ts	Vanilla extract
	ds	Salt

INSTRUCTIONS

GLAZE
In a small bowl combine buttermilk and baking soda and set aside. They will
foam up. In a larger bowl combine oil, sugar,molasses and eggs and beat
until well mixed (about 1 minute). Add the buttermilk mixture and blend.
Sift together dry ingredients. Slowly add dry ingredients to wet mixture.
Let mixture stand 15 minutes.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Drop batter by heaping tablespoons onto oiled
cookie sheet. Bake 8 to 9 minutes until the top springs back when touched
with your finger. Do Not overbake. The cookies should be quite soft.
While cookies are baking combine glaze ingredients. Remove cookies to wax
paper lined wire rack. Frost while warm with 1/2 tsp of glaze for each
cookie. Let cool completely. Transfer to trays and place in freezer to
completely set if neccesary or to freeze for storage. Once frozen pack in
tins in single layers seperated by wax paper. These freeze well.
David Monteith dmonteit@eecs.wsu.edu
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

A Message from our Provider:

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Again, self-love can produce a love for God through a lack of conviction of sin. Some people have no sense of the vileness of sin, and no sense of God’s infinite and holy opposition to it. They think God has no higher standards than they have! So they get on well with him and feel a sort of love for him, but they are loving an imaginary God, not the real God. Then there are others whose self-love produces a sort of love for God simply because of the material blessings they have received from His providence. There is nothing spiritual in this either!

Jonathan Edwards