Ginger Snaps

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

Directions
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.