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.