ORANGE BISCUITS

Sift together
2 cups bread flour
5 teaspoons baking powder and
1 teaspoon salt.

With tips of fingers rub in
2 tablespoons shortening.

Twenty minutes before the meal is to be served add
⅞ cup milk, mixing with a knife.

Roll out ¾ inch thick and cut with round cutter 1 inch in diameter.

Place close together on a greased tin sheet. Break
16 lumps demi-tasse loaf sugar in halves and squeeze the
Juice of ½ orange.

Dip pieces of sugar one at a time in the orange juice and push a piece down in the center of each biscuit.

Grate
Orange rind over the biscuits and bake 15 minutes in a hot oven or at 450 degrees F.