Ginger Gems

Description
Sufficient for sixteen gems.

Ingredients

 * 1 cupful sugar
 * ½ cupful Crisco
 * ¾ cupful chopped preserved ginger
 * 2 eggs
 * 1 cupful milk
 * 3 cupfuls flour
 * 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder
 * ½ teaspoonful salt

Directions

 * 1) Cream Crisco and sugar together, then add eggs well beaten.
 * 2) Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together and add alternately with milk to first mixture.
 * 3) Now mix in ginger and divide mixture into Criscoed and floured gem pans.
 * 4) Bake in hot oven twenty-five minutes.