One quart sifted flour, one teaspoonful salt, one-half pint milk, one large spoonful lard, two heaping teaspoonsful of Royal Baking Powder or a half-teaspoonful of soda and one teaspoonful of cream of tartar.

Put the baking powder, or cream of tartar and soda, and salt into the flour and sift it again. Then rub into this, the lard. Now see that the oven is very hot (400° Fahr.).

Grease the pans and get the cutter and rolling pin. Have everything ready before you put in the milk, then add the milk and knead up quickly. Roll out on the board one inch thick, cut with a small round cutter, put quickly into the pans and then into the oven. Bake twenty minutes. Remember, to have them a success, handle as little and make as rapidly, as possible.

Make Rye Biscuit as above, except use one pint of rye flour and one pint of wheat flour, instead of one quart wheat flour.