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     Title: Joe Froggers (Soft Molasses Cookies)
Categories: Cookies
     Yield: 1 servings

     7 c  Flour
     2 c  Sugar
     1 c  Butter
     2 ts Salt
     1 ts Ground cloves
     1 tb Ginger
     2 ts Soda
   3/4 c  Water
   1/4 c  Dark rum
     2 c  Molasses
     1 ts Nutmeg
   1/2 ts Allspice
     2 c  Raisins

     Cream sugar and butter. In small bowl, dissolve salt in the water. Add
 rum. In a pint measuring cup,   combine molasses with soda. Sift dry
 ingredients   together. Add liquid ingredients alternately with dry to the
 butter mixture. Add raisins. Chill dough for at least 12 hrs. Divide dough
 into fourths. Roll 1/3"   thick. Cut into 4" rounds. Put rounds 2" apart
 onto   buttered baking sheets. Bake 375 until set, 12-15 min.--do not
 overbake.

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