Jam Jams - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 cup margarine (you can use butter, I always do)
1/2 cup molasses
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon baking soda, dissolved in
3 tablespoons hot water
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups flour (or more as needed to make a stiff dough for rolling)
1/2 cup raspberry jam

Preparation

Cream together margarine and brown sugar. Beat in egg, molasses until fluffy.
Add soda with water, salt and vanilla.
Stir in eough flour to make a stiff dough for rolling.
Roll out 1/8th inch thick and cut into circles. (about 1 1/2 inches across).
Bake at 350*F for 8 to 10 minutes.
Cool on wire racks.
When cool put together in pairs with jam in the middle.