Best Recipe Ever!

If you think I'm posting a recipe that I think is the best tasting recipe ever, 

I'm not.  Sorry.

This is the "Best Recipe Ever" because of how it's written.

I enjoy the creative process of baking because you can use a little "guesstimating" to make something extra tasty, but I usually do this with vanilla.  This recipe is full of guesswork!

The actual recipe is in black and my comments are written in blue.

 

Aunt Susie's Church Cookies

2 tincups lard

4 tincups sugar 

2 tincups sour or buttermilk or sweet milk with vinegar added

How big is that tincup? 

8 or 9 eggs

I guess this depends on how the chickens are laying that day.  If these were my chickens, I would need to adjust the recipe to 0 or 1 egg!

3 c. brown and 1 c. white sugar

6 soup spoons baking powder

Soup spoon?  I've seen multiple sizes, but maybe all Amish soup spoons are the same? 

3 or 4 soup spoons soda

That's quite a bit of difference, right?!  Suppose it depends on the size of that soup spoon.

salt 

flavor and flour

My favorite ingredients for a cookie recipe ever!  

I think I'll add in about a tincup of salt, a soup spoon of, say, peppermint, and, oh how about, 13 cups of flour (I got that amount from the recipe that preceeds this one.  :) )

(Mrs. Clara Ann Bontrager) 

Notice that there's no temperature to set (maybe it's a wood burning stove?) or amount of time to bake these bad boys.

I love a good laugh and I definitely got one while reading this.  

Now, off I go to bake up a storm!