Take a quart of Hour, four eggs, a piece of butter the size of an egg, a piece of lard the same size; mix the butter and lard well in the flour; beat the eggs light in a pint bowl, and till it up with cold milk; then pour it gradually into the (lour; add a teaspoonful of salt; work eight or ten minutes only; cut the dough with a knife the size you wish it; roll them into cakes about the size of a breakfast plate, and bake in a quick oven.