Lard Cookies

Ingredients

1 cup Lard

1/2 cup Sugar

1 cup Buttermilk

1/2 teaspoon Baking soda

1 teaspoon Salt

1 teaspoon Nutmeg

1 heaping teaspoon baking powder

3 cups Flour (or enough flour to make a soft dough which will hol

Preparation

Melt lard; then cool until lukewarm. Sift all dry ingredients together. Add lard to dry ingredients. Add buttermilk. Mix well. Roll dough to 1/2 inch thickness on floured board. Cut large round cookies. Cook until brown, about 12 minutes.

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"This recipe has been handed down three generations. Grandma Totten said that the "new" shortenings just didn't work as well as lard - besides lard's cheaper"