1/4 cup shortening, and sufficient sweet milk to make a dough. Mix 3 cups flour and 6 very scant teaspoons baking powder thoroughly; add 2 heaping tablespoons sugar and salt and rub in shortening, then add milk, stirred in gradually. Turn dough on board and knead a little, then roll out and brush with melted butter; cut with biscuit cutter, and on half sprinkle raisins, turn other half over it and bake. - Mrs. C. C. Cleveland, Bartlett, 111.

Fruit And Nut Rolls

Sift together 3 times 3 cups ' flour, 4 teaspoons baking powder, 1/2 cup white sugar and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Work in from 1/3 to 1/2 cup of shortening, then mix to a dough with milk. Turn the dough on to a floured board, knead slightly; then roll out into a rectangular sheet about 1/2 of an inch thick. Brush over the sheet of dough with softened butter, sprinkle with sultana raisins or currants and hazel nuts cut into several pieces. Roll up the dough compactly, then cut the roll in pieces 1 inch long. Set these on end close together in a buttered pan. Bake about 20 'minutes. - Mrs. William Myers, Franklin, 111.