Soda Biscuit
1 qt. flour. 1 teaspoon soda. 1 teaspoon salt. 3 level teaspoons baking powder. 1 kitchen spoon crisco. 1 cup sour milk.
Sift soda, salt and flour, mix in lightly the crisco. Make into soft dough with milk. Knead smooth, roll out, cut and bake quickly. Leave piece of dough size of biscuit, put into one cup sour milk, let stand until next time, and use in making up the dough. This makes lovely light biscuits.
— Miss Fort'S Beaten Biscuit
1 1/2 lb. flour. 5 ozs. lard. 1 1/2 teaspoons salt. 2 teaspoons sugar (dissolve the sugar in water.) 1 cup water.
Blend with flour, lard and salt. Mix into a stiff dough with water in which sugar has been dissolved. Work well. Beat or roll until dough blisters. Bake in moderate oven until light brown.