Joe froggers (soft molasses cookies)

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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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