Ginger Cookies

Ingredients

3 1/2 c flour
1 ts baking soda
1 1/2 ts ginger
1 1/2 ts cinnamon
1/4 ts cardamom
1/2 c sweet butter
3/4 c sugar
1 egg
3/4 c molasses
1/2 ts salt
2 ts orange rind
1/4 on floured surface

Instructions

racks to cool. Note: Dough will keep up to one week, refrigerated. Cookies can be stored up to 3 weeks in cookie tins. Variation: Decorate cookies with raisins, colored sugar, silver dots, etc. before cooking. Or ice them after they have cooled. Yield: 3 1/2 dozen. Amanda Cushman, freelance recipe developer and food writer, New York, NY Randy Shearer