Ginger Cookies
Ingredients
- 3 lb flour
- 1 lb butter
- 1 lb lard
- 1 lb brown sugar
- 1 pint molasses
- 1 tsp (baking) soda
- ginger to taste
Instructions
- Add ginger to taste—about 4 level teaspoons, also lemon extract or grated rind and juice if preferred.
- Put flour, sugar and butter together and rub thoroughly. Make hole in center and pour in the molasses in which the soda has been beaten in. Stir all well together, break off enough to roll out; cut, space in pan and bake in very moderate oven.
- These keep well, especially in stone crock. This recipe makes a quantity if cut with small cutter.
