Gingersnap recipe

I am trying to find a recipe for gingersnaps that I used to make. When I finally updated my cookbook (Joy Of Cooking), because the old one had lost its cover, the pages were all over the place, The binding unravelling, totally foodstained, I did not realize the recipe would not be in the new cookbook. The recipe used vinegar in the ingredients, the doughballs were rolled in sugar and flattened with a glass, and you put three drops of water in the flattened cookie to get the crinkled surface so characteristic of gingersnaps. I have not found any recipes that compare in either taste or texture. I am sure somebody has a copy of the JOC with this recipe, or a card with it written down. The edition would have been early 60s. Thank you in advance.

May not be what you are after, ..... but maybe??  JOC, probably mid to late 60s, maybe even early 70s.  Wife's copy....tattered, stained, stressed....used and abused.  ;-)   But still with us, even without the covers and TOC....and copyright date.  Attached is the recipe from that book that uses vinegar.  Good luck!

I love the way the recipes in the JOC are set up, with the ingredients listed not at the top in a bunch, but inserted in the recipe at the time they are actually used in the recipe. I learned to cook several things with that cookbook as a young teenager.

But my favorite cookie cookbook is from the original JOC vintage era--the "Betty Crocker Cooky Book". I'll bet the recipe shared above is the one you were looking for, but I would have consulted "Cooky Book" in hopes of finding a good version for you!

Thank you. This looks right to me. I probably conflated the original directions with some in my many attempts to replicate the recipe. I especially like that that old cookbook didn't specify the milder "cooking" molasses. I just used good old Brer Rabbit Blackstrap and the cookies were great