1 teaspoon soda
3 cups flour
½ tablespoon ginger
⅓ teaspoon grated nutmeg
⅛ teaspoon clove
1 teaspoon salt
Chopped walnut meat
Pour water over butter and lard, then add sugar, molasses mixed with soda, flour, salt, and spices. Chill thoroughly, roll one-fourth inch thick, cut in strips three and one-half inches long by one and one-half inches wide. Sprinkle with nut meat and bake ten minutes.
Ginger Snaps
1 cup molasses