Ginger Snaps

Favorite cookie recipe of my mom’s.

     As a child, we would take a family drive on Sunday afternoons.  Every couple of weeks we would drive from South Milwaukee to the Illinois border, about an hour’s drive.  My dad would stop at the 1^st gas station in Illinois and buy oleo.  Wisconsin, being the ‘Dairy State’, did not allow oleo to be sold until 1967.  In the 1960’s oleo (margarine) was a lot cheaper than butter, and in high demand for recipes.   Today, butter sales are higher and preferred.

     My mother still calls margarine – oleo.