Cream Of Tartar And Soda Biscuits

1 1/2 qts. flour.

2 teaspoons cream of tartar sifted in flour. 1 tablespoon lard.

1 teaspoon soda mixed with flour.

1 cup sweet milk.

Mix all the above with a fork, handling as little as possible. Do not roll and cut until ready to bake. Bake in a quick oven.

Hard Beat Biscuits. (No. 1.)

2 qts. flour.

1 taespoon salt.

1 1/4 ozs. butter and lard each, mixed.

1 pinch soda. 3/4 cup milk. 8/4 cup water.

Make the above into a stiff dough and beat with mallet or work in biscuit machine until it blisters. Bake slowly.

Hard Beat Biscuits. (No. 2.)

1 qt. flour.

2 tablespoons butter. 1 pinch soda.

1 teaspoon salt. 1 cup sweet milk.

Mix all the above and beat with a wooden hammer or work in biscuit machine until the dough blisters. Bake in a slow oven.

Potato Biscuits

4 large boiled potatoes.

1 tablespoon lard.

1/2 yeast cake dissolved in 1/2 cup water.

Enough flour, to make a stiff dough.

1 cup boiled milk. 1 teaspoon salt.

Mash potatoes and scald with milk and set aside to get cold, then add yeast, lard and salt. Let this rise all night; in the morning work in flour, set in warm place to rise again. Bake, butter tops while baking.

Soda Biscuits With Sweet Milk

2 qts. flour.

2 tablespoons butter.

1/2 teaspoon soda sifted in flour.

1 teaspoon salt

Milk to make a stiff dough.

Mix, roll, make into biscuits and bake,

Sour Milk Biscuits

1 pt. sour milk.

2 qts. flour.

2 teaspoon salt.

1 teaspoon soda sifted in flour.

1 teaspoon cream of tartar.

2 heaping teaspoons lard.

Make into a soft dough and bake quickly.