Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1914 — Soft Ginger Cookies. [ARTICLE]

Soft Ginger Cookies.

One cupful sugar, two cupfuls molasses, half cupful lard, two tablespoon* fills soda, one cupful boiling milk, two teaspoonfuls ginger one-eighth tear spoonful pepper, one teaspoonful salt, pastry flour. Add the soda to the milk and when it effervesces turn it into the molasses. Add sugar, salt and spice and beat in four cupfuls of flour. Then add the lard, melted, and flour to make very stiff. Set aside for a few hours or over night; then roll to one-quarter inch in thickness and bake on an oiled sheet in a moderate oven.