Mix the meal, flour, sugar and baking powder thoroughly together and sift. Beat the egg well, add it to the milk. Melt the butter and stir it into the milk. Mix all together. Bake for twenty minutes in a shallow buttered tin in a hot oven.
*Little Breakfast or Tea Rolls
³⁄₄ lb. flour
2 ozs. butter
1 oz. powdered sugar
A dessert-spoonful of baking-powder
A little milk
Stir the sugar and baking powder into the flour. Then rub the butter into it. Mix with the milk into rather a stiff paste. Form into little rolls, rolling them lightly on a paste-board with the hand to get them smooth, about three inches in length, and a good inch wide and thick. Bake on a floured tin in a hot oven.
Quickly-made Scones
1 pint sour milk
1 tea-spoon carbonate of soda
2 tea-spoons melted butter
Flour
Add the butter to the milk. Dissolve the soda in it. Stir in sufficient flour to make a dough that can be rolled out. Mix. Roll out lightly and quickly. Cut into round shapes. Bake in a quick oven.
*Scones
1 lb. flour
2 ozs. fresh butter
1 oz. white powdered sugar
¹⁄₂ oz. cream of tartar
¹⁄₄ oz. carbonate of soda
A little milk, or buttermilk
Put the flour in a large basin and add the sugar, soda and cream of tartar. Rub the butter thoroughly into the flour. Mix into a paste with the milk, as lightly as possible. Roll it out lightly to about half an inch in thickness. Cut in rounds the size of a large saucer, and divide each round into four quarters. Bake on floured tins in a hot oven.