Ingredients. - Seven ounces of flour. Three ounces of oatmeal. Three ounces of powdered sugar. Three ounces of lard or butter. Quarter of a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda. One egg.

Time required, about half an hour.

To make Oatmeal Biscuits:

1. Put three ounces of lard or butter into a saucepan, and put it on the fire to melt.

2. Put seven ounces of flour into a basin, with three ounces of oatmeal, three ounces of powdered sugar, and a quarter of a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, and mix all together with a spoon.

3. Now stir in the melted lard.

4. Put about a tablespoonful of cold water into a teacup; break one egg into the water, and beat them slightly together.

5. Add this to the mixture in the basin, and mix all well and smoothly together with a spoon.

6. Flour a board and turn the paste out on it.

7. Take a rolling-pin, flour it, and roll out the paste as thin as possible.

8. Flour a tumbler and cut the paste into biscuits, according to taste.

9. Grease a baking-tin with dripping or butter, and place the biscuits on it.

10. Put the tin into the oven (the heat should rise to 240°) to bake for twenty minutes.