Soda Biscuit
1 quart of flour. 1 heaping teaspoonful of cream of tartar, the same of soda, and the same of salt. Sift these together, then rub in a table spoonful of lard and make up the dough with milk and water.--Mrs. E. B.
Seventeen hundred recipes from the housewives of Old Virginia — Sally Lunn and beaten biscuit, brandy peaches and Brunswick stew — gathered in 1879 by Patrick Henry's granddaughter, with tributes from the First Lady down.
1 quart of flour. 1 heaping teaspoonful of cream of tartar, the same of soda, and the same of salt. Sift these together, then rub in a table spoonful of lard and make up the dough with milk and water.--Mrs. E. B.