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Tops and Bottoms

1/2 lb. (I cup) sugar 14 ozs. (3/2 cups) flour 1/2 pint (1 cup) milk 4 tablespoonfuls melted butter 1/4 teaspoonful salt 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder I beaten egg Mix the sugar with one cupful of the flour and stir in the milk. Set in a warm place for five hours. Add the melted butter, salt, baking powder and the remaining flour. Mold this dough into balls about the size of an egg, lay them "Bachelor's Buttons" is the quaint name of tiny oldfashioned English cookies. These biscuits are often served at afternoon tea. They are fine for the lunch box "Tops and Bottoms" is the strange title of this English nursery biscuit loved by children. The sweet biscuits are split and browned "No Matters are sweet fritters filled with apple sauce Cakes on buttered baking tins, brush over with the beaten egg and bake in a moderate oven until ready.

When cold divide the balls through the center; rearrange them with the cut surface upward on the baking tins, and return to the oven until they are nicely browned.

When there are children in the household nothing will please them more than an abundant supply of the English nursery biscuits that bear the strange title, "Tops and Bottoms."