Old Fashioned Honey Cookies

Old Fashioned Honey Cookies from my Great Grandma Netti Maxwell

4 cups sifted four

1/4 tea salt

1 1/2 cup lard

1 1/2 cup honey

2 teasp. soda

1 teasp. ginger

1 teasp cinnamon

1/4 cup butter

5 Tblsp boiling water

Mix (beat) well let satnd over night in cool place. Roll and bake. Yep those were all the directions – I remember sitting in the overwarm kitchen with a huge glass of fresh milk and these cookies. She made them “big”.

I just realized I posted this as my first recipe in this blog – Guess it is appropriate to make it also the last of the year.  Forgive the double post.