Honey Gingerbread Cookies - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 cup sugar
3 cups sifted all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons powdered ginger
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon powdered clove
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 lb butter or 1/2 lb margarine, cut into dots
1/2 cup honey

Preparation

Sift the sugar, flour, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg together into a mixing bowl. Work the dots of butter into the dry ingredients with your fingertips.When throughly worked in, add the honey and stir until blended.
Refrigerate for an hour, or longer if possible.
Roll the dough out about 1/8-inch thick on a floured board or between sheets of waxed paper. Cut it into the shapes of Gingerbread Men or Houses or pooh shapes made from tracings of the Pooh drawings.
Bake for 12-15 minutes on a cookie sheet in the preheated oven. Remove from oven and, after a minute, from cookie sheet with a spatula to cool on cake racks.