Melt half a pound of butter in a pint of warm milk, adding a tea-spoonful
of soda; and stir in by degrees half a pound of sugar.
Then sift into a pan two pounds of flour; make a hole in the
middle; pour in the milk, &c., and mix it with the flour into a
dough. Put it on your paste-board, and knead it long and hard till
it becomes very light. Roll it out into a sheet half an inch
thick. Cut it into little round cakes with the top of a wine
glass, or with a tin cutter of that size; prick the tops; lay them
on tins sprinkled with flour, or in shallow iron pans; and bake
them of a light brown in a quick oven; they will be done in a few
minutes. These biscuits keep very well.