Lemon Wafers

Ingredients

 * 2 eggs
 * 2 cupfuls sugar
 * 2 cupfuls Crisco
 * 2 cupfuls milk
 * 5 cents baker's ammonia
 * 5 cents oil of lemon
 * flour to make stiff dough
 * 2 teaspoonfuls salt

Directions

 * 1) To prepare this lemon wafers recipe, first cover ammonia with milk and let soak over night.
 * 2) Next morning add sugar, Crisco, salt, eggs well beaten, lemon and enough flour to make a stiff dough.
 * 3) Roll very thin, cut in squares or diamonds, lay on Criscoed tins and bake from five to seven minutes in hot oven.
 * 4) Sufficient for one hundred and eighty-six wafers.