Ginger Snaps Recipe ingredients

• ½ cupful lard
• ½ cupful butter
• 1 large cupful brown sugar
• 1 cupful water
• 1 tablespoonful extract ginger
• 1 teaspoonful each extract cinnamon and cloves
• 1 quart flour

To prepare this Ginger Snaps Recipe, first 1-1/2 teaspoonfuls baking-powder.

Rub to a smooth paste the lard, butter, and sugar; then rub it into the flour and powder sifted together. Mix into a firm dough with the water and extracts. Roll out the dough thin on a floured board, cut out with a round biscuit-cutter, and bake on greased pan, in a hot, steady oven, eight minutes.