Mountain Cookies

Ingredients

• 1 lb margarine
• 5 c sugar
• 2 eggs
• 12 c plus 2 Tbsp water
• 1 Tbsp grated lemon rind heaping
• 12 c molasses
• pinch of baking powder
• 3 Tbsp cinnamon heaping
• 3 Tbsp cloves heaping
• 2 Tbsp baking soda
• 1 Tbsp grated orange rind heaping
• 12 Tbsp lemon extract
• 7 c flour
• pinch of salt

Directions

1. Melt margarine and add sugar cinnamon and cloves
2. Mix together and cool
3. Add eggs beat in well by hand
4. Add soda dissolved in water orange rind lemon rind and extract
5. Add molasses
6. Mix together flour baking powder and salt then add it slowly into other combined ingredients
7. Pack into waxed paper lined bread pans
8. Refrigerate until it is hard enough to slice in thin slices
9. Sprinkle each slice with sugar and bake in 350 oven for 5 to 7 minutes