100 Year Old Cookie - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. sugar
1/2 c. lard
2 eggs
1 scant tsp. soda
water
3 c. flour

Preparation

Cream together sugar and lard.
Add eggs and beat hard.
Place soda in a cup and add a mite of water until it foams up.
Sift flour and add to mixture.
Mix smoothly and swiftly, then neatly roll out on a board.
If too soft, add a little flour.
Cut out and bake in a hot oven.