Sift flour and salt into basin, rub Crisco lightly into them. Stir soda into milk until it effervesces and then add to flour. Turn out on floured baking board, knead lightly until smooth, roll out quarter of an inch thick, cut with biscuit cutter, place on greased tin and bake twelve to fifteen minutes in hot oven.
Sufficient to make twelve biscuits.
Sour Milk Griddle Cakes
| 2 cupfuls flour 1 tablespoonful melted Crisco 2 cupfuls sour milk | 1/2 teaspoonful salt 1 teaspoonful baking soda 1 egg |
| 1 tablespoonful sugar | |
Sift dry ingredients, add milk, well beaten egg, and melted Crisco. Drop by spoonfuls on hot griddle, greased with Crisco. Cook until browned, then turn and cook on other side. Serve hot with syrup.
Sufficient for eighteen cakes.
Sour Milk Tea Cakes
| 1 cupful cornmeal 4 tablespoonfuls Crisco 2 eggs 1-1/2 cupfuls sour milk | 2 cupfuls flour 3/4 cupful sugar 1 teaspoonful baking soda 1 teaspoonful salt |
| 1 teaspoonful lemon extract | |
Beat up the eggs, add meal and milk and mix well, add flour, sugar, soda, and salt sifted together. Now add extract and Crisco, melted, and beat two minutes. Divide into Criscoed and floured gem pans and bake in moderate oven fifteen minutes.