Just made these for Katrina's cookie party and they were well-received:
Ginger Spice Cookies preheat oven to 350
cream: 3 cubes margarine
2 cups brown sugar
1 cup molasses
2 eggs
Mix in: 4 T orange rind
2 T ground ginger
2 T cinnamon
4 t baking soda
1/2 t ground cloves {optional}
1/2 t nutmeg {optional}
4 1/2 cups of flour {I use half wheat flour & half white}
Mix cookie batter until all ingrediants mixed, then add your choice of dried fruit. I add: 1 c, EACH of = raisins; dried cherries, dried apricots - cut up;
and mission figs - cut into bits
cook for about 12 minutes; makes 10 dozen cookies