Ginger Rye Cookies

Ingredients

• 2c rye flour
• 1 t baking soda
• 1/2 t salt
• 2 t ginger
• 3/4 t pepper
• 1/2 t cinnamon
• 1/2 t cardamom

• 3/4c sugar
• 1/2c vegetable oil
• 1 egg
• 1/4c molasses

Optional

• 1/4 c chopped crystallized ginger (reduce ginger)
• 1/4 c honey (reduce sugar)
• 1/4 c brown sugar (reduce sugar)

Recipe

Preheat the oven to 325℉. Parchment paper on two baking sheets.

Mix dry ingredients in one bowl. Mix wet ingredients in order (sugar+oil, then egg and molasses), then mix the dry into the wet.

Roll balls onto sheets, 2" apart.

Cook 12-15 minutes and let cool on the sheet.

Avoid rocks in your rye.