You may expedite the work by preparing raisins and almonds the day before.
The Professor's wife always served these almond cakes with coffee when she gave a "kaffee klatch" to her country friends.
"JULY ANN'S" GINGER SNAPS
Two cups of molasses (New Orleans), 1 cup of light brown sugar, 1 egg, 1 tablespoonful of soda, 2 tablespoonfuls of vinegar, 1 tablespoonful of ginger and about 5½ cups of flour.
Place molasses and sugar in a sauce-pan on the range, cook together until sugar is dissolved, no longer.
Mix the soda and vinegar and when foamy add to the sugar and molasses with a portion of the required amount of flour; then add the egg and the flour remaining. Turn dough out on a well-floured bake-board, roll out into a thin sheet and cut out small cakes with a tin cutter. Bake in a moderately hot oven.
No shortening of any kind was used in these cakes. One hundred cakes were baked from the above ingredients.