Ingredients. - One gill of milk. One ounce of butter. Half a pound of flour. Teaspoonful of baking-powder.

Time required, about half an hour.

To make Milk Biscuits:

1. Put one gill of milk into a saucepan; add to it one ounce of butter, and pat it on the fire to warm.

2. Put half a pound of flour into a basin, with a tea-spoonful of baking-powder.

3. When the milk is' hot, pour it into the flour, and stir it into a smooth, stiff paste.

4. Flour a board and turn the paste on to it.

5. Flour a rolling-pin, and roll the paste into as thin a sheet as possible.

6. Flour a docker or tumbler, and cut the paste into rounds the size of a teacup.

7. Grease a tin with dripping or butter, and place the biscuits on it.

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

9. After that, turn the biscuits off the tin and set them aside to cool.