Ingredients. - One pound of flour. Quarter of a pint of milk. Quarter of a pound of butter. One dessertspoonful of baking-powder.

Time required, about forty minutes.

To make Scones:

1. Put one pound of flour into a basin, and mix into it a dessertspoonful of baking-powder.

2. Take a quarter of a pound of butter and rub it well into the flour with your hands.

3. Now turn it out on to a floured board.

4. Flour a rolling-pin and roll it out, to make sure that the butter is well mixed with the flour.

5. Mix it into a smooth paste with rather less than a quarter of a pint of milk.

N. B. - The paste must not be moist.

6. Flour the rolling-pin and roll out the paste to a thin sheet, about one-third of an inch in thickness.

7. Take a knife, dip it in flour, and cut the paste into triangular pieces, each side about four inches long.

8. Flour a tin, put the scones on it, and bake them directly in the oven (the heat should rise to 240°) for thirty to forty minutes.

9. When the scones are half done, brush them over with milk.