The name of a sort of molasses wafer,, but there is no brandy about them.

4 cups flour - a pound.

1 cup butter - 1/2 pound.

1 cup sugar - 1/2 pound.

2 ounces ground ginger.

Lemon extract to flavor.

1 teaspoon soda - rounded measure.

2 large cups common molasses - 11/2 pounds.

Rub the butter into the flour as in making short paste, and add the ginger. Make a hole in the middle, put in the sugar, molasses and extract, dissolve the soda and put in, stir all together.

Drop the batter with a teaspoon on baking pans, not greased, and bake in a slack oven. The snaps run out flat and thin. Take off before they get cold and bend them to tubular shape on a new broom handle.