2 cups pastry flour

5 teaspoons baking powder

1 1/2 teaspoons salt

3 tablespoons lard

1/4 lb. pure maple sugar

1 cup milk

Break maple sugar into small lumps the size of a large pea. Mix flour, baking powder, salt, and then rub the fat into the dry ingredients. Add the lumps of maple sugar. Add as much milk as the flour will hold in order to make a dough which can be cut with a cutter, but not stiff enough to be rolled with a rolling pin. Cut dough in small biscuits and place on a greased baking sheet in a hot oven. Bake for ten minutes. Serve at once. Nuts used instead of the sugar make another variety.