Philadelphia Gingerkrinkle Cookies (1975)

• 
  1/4 cup sugar
• 2/3 cup oil
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 4 tbspns molasses
•  2 cups flour
• 2 tspns baking soda
• 1/4 tspn salt
• 1 tspn cinnamon
• 1 tspn ginger

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix oil and 1 cup sugar, add egg, and beat well. Stir in molasses.

Sift in dry ingredients. Drop better by teaspoonfuls into 1/4 cup sugar, and form ball coated with sugar.

Place on cookie sheet 3 inches apart. Bake 8 to 10 minutes at 350 degrees. Yields 3 dozen.

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(Origin - "The Junior League of Philadelphia's Bicentennial Cookbook", 1975.)