Ginger Cookies

Ingredients

• Ground ginger – 2 teaspoons.
• Unbleached all purpose flour – 2-1/4 cups or 285 grams
• Baking soda- 2 teaspoons.
• Salt – 1/4 teaspoon.
• Ground cinnamon – 1-1/2 teaspoons.
• Ground allspice – 1/2 teaspoon.
• Sugar – 1/2 cup or 100 grams.
• Full-flavored or unsulphured molasses – 1/4 cup.
• Unsalted butter – 8 tablespoons or 113 grams. (Melted and just warm)
• Firmly packed light sugar or light muscovado sugar – 1/3 cup or 66 grams.
• Large egg- 1 no.
• Grated or finely minced fresh ginger root – 2 tablespoons.
• Turbinado or granulated or demerara sugar for rolling – 1/2 cup or 100 grams.
• Crystallized ginger or ginger chips – 3/4 cups or 113 grams. (They should be cut into 1/
• 4-inch dice and it should be shaken in a coarse strainer to remove loose sugar).