Molasses Cookies

These cookies fill the kitchen with the aroma of fall as they bake. It's advised they are best right out of the oven while still warm and soft on the inside and crunchy on the outside. You can use molasses if you don’t have sorghum.
Ingredients  
12 tablespoons butter, melted
1 cup sugar
1⁄3 cup sorghum or molasses
1 egg
1 3/4 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
sugar and coarse salt for sprinkling
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350F. 

In a large bowl, combine melted butter, sugar, molasses, egg, whisk well. 

Sift flour with cloves, ginger, cinnamon, salt and baking soda. Add to molasses mixture and stir.

Cover a baking sheet with foil. Drop batter onto baking sheet at least 2 inches apart, with a small ice cream scoop or spoons. Sprinkle with sugar and coarse salt. 

Bake for 10 minutes. Let cool on foil 5 minutes. Remove to wax paper. Makes 2 dozen cookies.