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Scones, Soda

Dissolve half a salt-spoonful of carbonate of soda and five ounces of fresh butter or lard in a quarter of a pint of warm water or milk: put ten ounces of flour into a bowl, add a pinch of salt, and stir in the liquor to make a stiff dough. Roll this out into a round cake a quarter of an inch thick, mark this into eight portions, and bake on a girdle or in a thick frying-pan. Split the scones, butter them well, and serve very hot. Time to bake, fifteen to twenty minutes. Probable cost, 6d.