Use one level teaspoonful of baking-powder to each cupful of flour.
Use one even teaspoonful of soda and two full teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar to a quart of flour.
When sour milk is used, take one even teaspoonful of soda to a pint of milk, and omit the cream of tartar.
When molasses is used, omit the cream of tartar, and use one teaspoonful of soda to each cupful of molasses.
Mix powders with the flour, and sift them together, so as to thoroughly mix them.
Mix dry materials in one bowl and liquids in another; combine them quickly, and put at once into the oven.
The oven for baking bread should be hot enough to brown a teaspoonful of flour in five minutes. For biscuits it should brown in one minute.
Rolls brushed with milk just before baking will have a brown crust.
Rubbing the crust with butter just before it is taken from the oven will make it crisp.