Honey Gingerbread Cookies

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 3 cups sifted all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons powdered ginger
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon powdered clove
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/2 lb butter or margarine, cut into dots
• 1/2 cup honey

Directions

1. 1

   Sift the sugar, flour, baking soda, salt, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg together into a mixing bowl. Work the dots of butter into the dry ingredients with your fingertips.When throughly worked in, add the honey and stir until blended.

2. 2

   Refrigerate for an hour, or longer if possible.

3. 3

   Roll the dough out about 1/8-inch thick on a floured board or between sheets of waxed paper. Cut it into the shapes of Gingerbread Men or Houses or pooh shapes made from tracings of the Pooh drawings.

4. 4

   Bake for 12-15 minutes on a cookie sheet in the preheated oven. Remove from oven and, after a minute, from cookie sheet with a spatula to cool on cake racks.