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Buttermilk Scones or Bread

To one pound of flour add one tea-spoonful of salt; mix fifty grains of carbonate of soda with a tea-spoonful of powdered sugar, and rub them into the flour. When they are well blended together, mix the flour into a stiff dough with some buttermilk--or milk will do--but no time should be lost in putting it into the oven, or the bread will be heavy. It requires a well-heated oven, but not a strong one. Time to bake, about three-quarters of an hour. Probable cost, from 3d. to 4d. Sufficient for a small loaf.

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