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Standard Baking Powder Biscuit

4 level teaspoons Calumet Baking Powder 1 level teaspoon salt 1 or 2 tablespoons butter or lard About 2 cups of milk or water, more or less, enough to mix a very soft dough Sift flour, salt and baking powder together thoroughly. Rub in shortening with fingers, flexible knife, known as spatula, or rounding edge of a large spoon. With a little practice the spatula or spoon can be made to do better work than the fingers. Add milk or water, as cold as possible, mixing to a very soft dough. Mix with a spoon or flexible knife, in preference to using the warm hand. Turn dough on a well floured board, and roll out lightly till half an inch thick. Cut into biscuits and lay in baking pan, not too closely. Bake in hot oven from 12 to 15 minutes.