Joe Froggers (Soft Molasses Cookies)

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Title: Joe Froggers (Soft Molasses Cookies)
Categories: Cookies
Yield: 1 servings

7 c Flour
2 c Sugar
1 c Butter
2 ts Salt
1 ts Ground cloves
1 tb Ginger
2 ts Soda
3/4 c Water
1/4 c Dark rum
2 c Molasses
1 ts Nutmeg
1/2 ts Allspice
2 c Raisins

Cream sugar and butter. In small bowl, dissolve salt in the water. Add
rum. In a pint measuring cup, combine molasses with soda. Sift dry
ingredients together. Add liquid ingredients alternately with dry to the
butter mixture. Add raisins. Chill dough for at least 12 hrs. Divide dough
into fourths. Roll 1/3" thick. Cut into 4" rounds. Put rounds 2" apart
onto buttered baking sheets. Bake 375 until set, 12-15 min.--do not
overbake.

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