Preparation Time: 1 - 2 hours       Cooking Time: 30 minutes or less        Serves: 12
Category: Dessert       Sub-Category: Cookies        Cuisine: American 
 
 Ingredients:

Ginger-Bacon Cookies

3/4 cup bacon fat, cooled (from 1 1/2 pounds of cheap bacon)
1 cup sugar
4 Tablespoons molasses
1 large egg
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Note: it's best to prep this dough earlier so it can chill in the fridge for at least an hour.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Or, if you're following my strange chronology, you turn it down from the broiler setting and let it cool for a little bit before cookieing it up.

Mix the wet ingredients in a bowl.

Now is when you can appreciate the aroma of bacon fat with delicious spices like ginger, cinnamon and cloves...it's really rather pleasant!