Soda Beaten Biscuit

1 quart flour
3 tablespoonfuls Crisco
1/2 teaspoonful salt
1/5 teaspoonful baking soda
Buttermilk

Sift flour with soda and salt, then rub in Crisco thoroughly with finger tips, and mix to stiff dough with buttermilk. Beat with rolling-pin or hammer until dough blisters. Roll out one-third inch in thickness, cut with round cutter, and lay on Criscoed tins. Bake in moderate oven from thirty to forty minutes.

Sufficient for forty biscuits.