In another bowl, cream together
3/4 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
Beat in
1/4 cup molasses
1 egg
Preheat oven to 350 F and lightly grease some
cookie sheets.
Add the flour mixture 1/3 at a time and mix well
.
Form into walnut sized balls and dip in granulated
sugar. If you want to
be decorative, the colored crystalized sugars
from the supermarket will
work, but a drop or two of food coloring mixed
into a few tablespoons of
granulated sugar works as well. Place on the
cookie sheets sugar side
up.
Bake about 10 minutes. Slightly undercooked is
better than overcooked,
because the molasses is vulnerable to scorching.