Baking Powder Biscuit

2 or 3 heaping tablespoonfuls of butter, 4 teacupfuls of flour, little salt, 1 1/2 teacupfuls of sweet milk, 4 teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Have butter very cold and hard, put into flour and rub with fingers until like bread crumbs; sift in baking powder and stir lightly, then add milk and mix with a knife or spoon as rapidly as possible. Turn out on floured board, do not knead, but make into shape quickly, and with as little handling as possi-sible. Roll about an inch in thickness, cut out with biscuit cutter and place in floured pan. Bake in very hot oven about fifteen minutes.

Mrs. H. S. Ball.

Sweet Biscuits

1 cupful of sour milk,

1 cupful of sour cream,

2cupfuls of Golden C sugar, 2 level teaspoonfuls of soda, 2 teaspoonfuls of ginger,

2 teaspoonful of salt,

Flour. Make the batter as soft as you can knead it. Knead lightly and as little as possible. Bake in moderately hot oven about one-half hour.

Mrs. Geo. Abbott.

Light Biscuit For Tea

When giving your bread the last mixing take a piece of dough large enough to make a medium sized pan of biscuits, one tablespoon-ful butter, three tablespoonfuls of sugar and mix well. Let it rise; when light shape into biscuits and let rise again. Bake twenty minutes in hot oven.

Mrs. Thos. Renison.

Sour Milk Biscuits

Four cupfuls of unsifted flour and one level teaspoonful of cream tartar sifted together. Two large cupfuls of sour milk with one teaspoonful of soda stirred in. Two large tablespoonfuls melted lard, or butter, (lard preferred). Mix and bake in hot oven.

Mrs. A. J. Abbott.

Raised Biscuit

Dough as for one loaf, 2 eggs,

1 cupful of sugar, 1/2 cupful melted butter. Place dough on bread board, make a hollow place in the center into which drop the eggs (not beaten), sugar, and melted butter (luke warm) stirring all this with a spoon; then mix with the dough kneading a long time. Make into biscuits, (do not cut but mould with the hands); put into pan and place where it is warm to rise. Cook with little less fire than for bread.

Mrs. C. Clausen.

English Biscuit

1 1/2 pts. of flour,

1 cupful of cornstarch,

2heaping tea spoonfuls of baking powder,

3tablespoonfuls of sugar, 1 large pinch of salt.

Sift all together, then mix in three table-spoonfuls of lard; add one-half pt. of milk and one-half cupful of currants. Bake as for ordinary biscuit. Ida P. IyeNs.