Beaten Biscuits

Beaten Biscuits

To one quart of flour add one teaspoonful salt, one pinch soda, sift these alltogether, then mix in one tablespoon of lard, which has previously been on ice. (It must be cold and stiff.) Moisten all with half a pint of milk, which also has been on ice and in which two tablespoonfuls of crushed ice is put. Mix all well together, beat or work in machine until light, and bake in a moderate oven. A hot oven blisters them.
—Laura Thornton Knowles, Southern Recipes Tested by Myself. New York: George H. Doran, 1913.

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