This section is from the book "Pipe Organ Cook Book", by Ladies of First Presbyterian Church Aledo, Illinois. Also available from Amazon: The Way to Cook.
One pint of flour, one-half teaspoonful salt, 2 level teaspoonfuls of baking powder, 2 level tablespoonfuls butter, 1 scant cup of milk. Mix flour, salt, baking powder and rub in the butter, add milk, roll, cut out, bake 15 minutes.
Mrs. G. G. Weidling.
Into 1 quart of sifted flour, rub thoroughly with your hands 3 heaping teaspoonfuls baking powder. Then in the same manner rub in 1 heaping tablespoonful of butter or lard. After adding 1 teaspoonful of salt if lard is used, add milk or water sufficient to make a very soft dough. Roll and cut into small thick cakes and place at once into a very hot oven.
Pearl Love.
Two cupfuls bread sponge, 1 small cup of sugar, 1 tablespoonful of lard, 1 egg. Beat sugar, egg, lard well together and add to sponge and stiffen. Mrs. Alta C. Marquis.
One pint sweet milk, 2 eggs, 2 cupfuls sugar, 1 large half cupful of butter. Mix 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder in flour sufficient to make a good dough. Roll a little thicker than cookies. Susie Guthrie.
Sift with 2 cupfuls of flour 1 heaping teaspoonful of soda and 2 teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar two or three times, add two-thirds cupful of lard, mix, then 1 and one-half cupfuls water, one-half teaspoonful salt, add enough flour to make a soft dough, roll out and bake quickly. Mrs. E. S. Hunt.
 
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