Description: The next best thing to Lembas bread.

Submitted by: LinweSingollo on 2005-09-30 11:35:02

Serves: several hungry hobbits

Prep Time:

Difficulty: Easy

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Ingredients

1 cup shortening
2 beaten eggs
1 cup buttermilk or sour milk
1/4 tsp. salt
12 crushed cardamom seeds
1/2 tsp. almond flavoring
1 tsp. baking soda
3 cups flour

Instructions

Mix ingredients well. Grease 9 x 13 pan and line with waxed paper on bottom. Bake at 350 for about 40 minutes. Dump out on cooky sheet and cut length-wise in 2 rows and then across in 1/2 inch slices. Lay out flat on cooky sheets. Bake about 15 minutes at 300, turning once to brown both sides. Be careful not to burn them!