ne egg; make up with half a pint of milk, or if milk is
not to be had, plain water will answer; beat well until the dough
blisters and cracks; pull off a two-inch square of the dough; roll it
into a ball with the hand; flatten, stick with a fork, and bake in a
quick oven.

It is not beating hard that makes the biscuit nice, but the regularity
of the motion. Beating hard, the old cooks say, _kills_ the dough.

_An old-fashioned Southern Recipe._

POTATO BISCUIT.

Boil six good-sized potatoes with their jackets on; take them out with
a skimmer, drain and squeeze with a towel to ensure being dry; then
remove the skin, mash them perfectly free from lumps, add a
tablespoonful of butter, one egg and a pint of sweet milk. When cool,
beat in half a cup of yeast. Put in just enough flour to make a stiff
dough. When this rises, make into small cakes. Let them rise the same
as biscuit and bake a delicate brown.

This dough is very fine dropped into meat soups for pot-pie.

VINEGAR BISCUITS.

Take two quarts of flour, one large tablespoonful of lard or butter,
one tablespoonful and a half of vinegar and one teaspoonful of soda;
put the soda in the vinegar and stir it well; stir in the flour; beat
two eggs very light and add to it; make a dough with warm water stiff
enough to roll out, and cut with a biscuit-cutter one inch thick and
bake in a _quick_ oven.

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GRAFTON MILK BISCUITS.

Boil and mash two white potatoes; add two teaspoonfuls of brown sugar;
pour boiling water over these, enough to soften them. When tepid, add
one small teacupful of yeast; when light, warm three ounces of butter
in one pint of milk, a little salt, a third of a teaspoonful of soda
and flour enough to make stiff sponge; when risen, work it on the
board, put it back in the tray to rise again; when risen, roll into
cakes and let them stand half an hour. Bake in a _quick_ oven. These
biscuits are fine.

SALLY LUNN.

Warm one-half cupful of butter in a pint of milk; add a teaspoonful of
salt, a tablespoonful of sugar, and seven cupfuls of _sifted_ flour;
beat thoroughly and when the mixture is blood warm, add four beaten
eggs and last of all, half a cup of good lively yeast. Beat hard until
the batter breaks in blisters. Set it to rise over night. In the
morning, dissolve half a teaspoonful of soda, stir it into the batter
and turn it into a well-buttered, shallow dish to rise again about
fifteen or twenty minutes. Bake