This section is from the book "Better Meals For Less Money", by Mary Green. Also available from Amazon: Better Meals for Less Money.
1 cup entire wheat flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup ice water
Sift flour and salt, add ice water gradually, and beat three minutes with strong egg beater; bake in hot iron pans in very hot oven twenty minutes.
2 cups flour 1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons shortening Cold water
Sift flour and salt, rub in shortening with tips of fingers, and add enough cold water to make a stiff dough; knead until Smooth, and beat with the rolling-pin fifteen minutes, or until dough blisters; roll out about one-third of an inch thick, cut with a small round cutter, prick with a fork, place on a greased baking pan, and chill in the ice-box for half an hour; bake about twenty-five minutes, having the oven very hot for the first ten minutes. A biscuit brake may be used instead of rolling-pin.
 
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