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Oatmeal Cookies

3 cups oatmeal 1½ cups cream 2 eggs 2 cups sugar 1 cup lard 1 teaspoon soda Pinch of salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon Essence of peppermint Five Roses flour.

Soak the oatmeal ½ an hour in the cream. Add the eggs, sugar, lard, soda, salt and cinnamon. Flavour with essence of peppermint to taste. Roll out thin with Five Roses flour. Spread in tins and bake in moderate oven. Cut into squares while warm. Let stand in tin until cool, then lift out.