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2 teaspoons baking soda
2 cups molasses
1 cup seeded raisins
Mix butter, sugar, molasses, ginger and salt together in saucepan; stir over medium heat until mixture boils and then continue boiling 5 minutes. Pour into a bowl and stir in soda and just enough sifted flour until the batter is stiff enough to drop from a spoon. Add the raisins and drop in spoonfuls onto a greased baking sheet. Bake at 380 degrees.
Christmas Peppernuts
2 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon soda
1 tablespoon hot water
1 cup chopped nuts
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
31/2 cups sifted bread flour
Mix the sugar with the well-beaten eggs, dissolve soda in hot water and add, followed by the nuts and the spices sifted with the flour. Add more flour if necessary to make a dough stiff enough to roll. Roll out the dough to about 1/8 inch thickness. Cut in tiny rounds about as large as a quarter and bake in a quick oven (400 degrees) until brown. Roll at once in powdered sugar.
Penoche
3 cups brown sugar
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup nut meats
Mix sugar and milk in a saucepan and cook to the soft ball stage (236 degrees). Remove from heat, add butter and vanilla and cool without stirring. When it is lukewarm, beat until it is creamy. Stir in the broken nut meats. Hickory nuts or English walnuts are esper
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