Old-fashioned Gingerbread Cookies - Piparkakut, a traditional Finnish Christmas recipe on Gourmetpedia

Ingredients

• - 300 g / 10 oz. butter or margarine
• - 300 g / 10 oz. sugar
• - 3 eggs
• - 250 ml / 1 cup brown syrup (tummaa siirappia) or molasses
• - 2 tsp. ground cinnamon
• - 2 tsp. ground ginger
• - 2 tsp. ground nutmeg
• - 1 tbsp. orange zest, grated
• - 1 kg (2 1/4 lb.) flour
• - 3 tsp. baking soda
• - 1/2 tsp. salt