Add the milk; mix and roll out as quickly as possible; cut in rounds, and bake in a quick oven.

If properly made, they are light as puffs; but their success depends upon thorough and rapid mixing and baking.
BAKING-POWDER BISCUIT.
Make as above, using two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder, instead of the soda and cream of tartar.
BEATEN BISCUIT.
Three pints of sifted flour; one cup of lard; one teaspoonful of salt.

Rub the lard and flour well together, and make into a very stiff dough with about a cup of milk or water: a little more may be necessary.

Beat the dough with a rolling-pin for half an hour, or run through the little machine that comes for the purpose.

Make into small biscuit, prick several times, and bake till brown.
WAFERS.
One pint of sifted flour; a piece of butter the size of a walnut; half a teaspoonful of salt.
Rub butter and flour together, and make into dough with half a cup of warm milk.