Gingerbread (For Cookies Or A Gingerbread House) - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1/2 cup sugar
    1/2 cup molasses
    1 1/2 teaspoons ginger
    1 teaspoon allspice
    1 teaspoon cinnamon
    1 teaspoon clove
    2 teaspoons baking soda
    1/2 cup margarine
    1 egg, beaten
    3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
Preparation
    In a medium saucepan, heat sugar, molasses, ginger, allspice, cinnamon, and cloves to boiling, stirring occasionally.
    Remove from heat; stir in soda (it will foam up).
    Stir in margarine till melted.
    With a fork, stir in egg, then flour.
    On a floured surface, knead dough till mixed. Divide dough in half, wrap half with plastic wrap; set aside.
    Roll half the dough, with a rolling pin, slightly thinner than 1/4 inch.
    Cut with cutters.
    Bake at 325F on a cookie sheet for 12 minutes; cool on a wire rack.
    Makes about 3 dozen 3\" gingerbread people.
    NOTE: We make houses by cutting out our house design (the 2 sides of the roof, two sides, a front and a back of the house) on graph paper, and then placing the graph paper shapes on the dough and cutting the dough shapes out with a knife.

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