Instructions: Cream butter. Add sugar. Cream again. Add water. Combine egg and molasses. Add to butter mixture. Sift dry ingredients together. Mix lightly with creamed ingredients. Drop 4 inches apart from teaspoon onto greased cookie sheet. Bake in 325-degree oven for 8 to 12 minutes.

NOTES : These soft ginger cookies are from ``500 Recipes by Request, a compilation of Wabashas Anderson House specialties that was published in 1948.

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