| "1 pt. molasses—dark |
| 1 cup butter |
| 1 tablespoon ginger |
| 1 teaspoon soda |
| 1 teaspoon cinnamon |
| "About 2 quarts flour, or enough more to make a thick dough. |
"Sift flour, soda, and spices together. Melt the butter, put the molasses in a big bowl, add the butter, then the flour gradually, using a knife to cut it in. When stiff enough to roll, roll out portions quite thin on a floured board, cut out with a cookie cutter or with the cover of a baking powder can. Place them on greased tins, leaving a little space between each cookie. Bake in a hot oven about five minutes."
"Miss Dawson says we must let the cookies get perfectly cold before we pack them. Then we must wrap them in paraffin paper and pack them tightly into a box."
"They ought to be so tight that they won't rattle round and break."
"If we could get enough tin boxes it would be great."
"Let's ask Grandmother Emerson and Aunt Louise and all Mother's friends to save their biscuit boxes for us."
"We ought to have thought of asking them before. And we must go out foraging for baking powder tins to steam the little fruit puddings and the small loaves of Boston brown bread in."
"What a jolly idea!"
"Miss Dawson says that when they are cold we can slip them out of their tins and brush the bread and pudding and cake over with pure alcohol. That will kill the mould germs and it will all be evaporated by the time they are opened."
"If there is paraffin paper around them, too, and they are slipped back into their little round tins it seems to me they ought to be as cosy and good as possible."