Dissolve half a saltspoonful of soda and two ounces of butter or lard in a gill of warmed sour milk; put ten ounces of flour and a little salt in a bowl; pour the mixture in and make it into a stiff dough; roll it out into a round cake half an inch thick; mark it in eight sections and bake on a griddle fifteen to twenty minutes; split and butter while hot.

Scones No. 2

Melt in half a pint of milk one ounce of butter; beat up an egg and stir it into the milk; with a saltspoonful of salt add enough fine flour mixed with a teaspoonful of baking powder to make a very soft dough; flour the board thickly and make into round cakes, the size of a small plate, an inch thick; mark into sections and bake twenty minutes on a griddle; split and butter while hot.