Ingredients:

• 8 tbsps butter
• zest of 4 limes
• ½ cup vegetable oil
• 1 egg
• ¼ tsp vanilla extract
• ½ cup confectioner's sugar, or icing sugar
• ½ cup granulated sugar
• 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
• ¼ tsp brown ginger
• ¼ tsp salt
• 1 tsp baking powder
• bowl of water
• bowl of granulated sugar

Method:

In a large bowl, mix butter, lime zest, and vegetable oil. Blend.

Add egg, and vanilla extract. Blend again.

Add sugar and icing sugar, a bit at a time. Continue to blend.

In another bowl, add flour, ginger, salt, and baking powder. Sift it together.

Add about ¼ of the dry, flour mixture to the wet mixture. Mix. Knead into a dough.

Refrigerate for 2 hours. Remove, and roll mixture into inch-sized balls.

Place on cookie sheet.

Dip the rim of a juice glass into water, then into sugar, and press it down onto each cookie ball.

Bake at 350º until a light, golden brown.

Remove from oven, allow to cool, then serve.

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