Instructions: Cream one half cup of lard with two cups of brown sugar, stir in two cups of light molasses. Sift into this four cups of flour, two tablespoons of ginger, one half teaspoon of salt, one teaspoon of soda. Add enough flour to make a stiff dough which can be rolled very thin. Cut small round fancy or cutters and bake in buttered tins in a Quick oven. They will burn easily. (Adapted and provd Market Square Tavern Kitchen, 1937)

* The preface of the book says the recipes marked with an asterisk (*) were proved in the Williamsburg kitchens. "The professed cook may attempt some
of the unproved recipes or may choose to adapt them in her own way, while the less Experienced may proceed with the proved Recipes." I guess you are
now forewarned.

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