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How to Make Soda Biscuits: 



2 cups flour 1 cup buttermilk 



y 2 teaspoon soda 2 tablespoons lard 



1 teaspoon salt 



Sift some flour into a pan, and with a large spoon meas- 

 ure two cups, putting the flour into cup gently, and not 

 mashing down. Put the flour that is measured back into 

 the sifter and add to it one teaspoon of salt and one-half tea- 

 spoon of soda. Rub the lard into the flour using tips of 

 fingers, until it is mixed well. Add the cup of buttermilk 

 slowly, working the dough all the time with the tips of the 

 fingers, until it is soft as can be handled. Take the dough 

 out of the crock and put on a board sprinkled with flour, 

 working it with the hands or kneading it just a little, then 

 roll it out with the rolling pin to about one inch thickness. 

 Cut with a small biscuit cutter and put in a shallow pan. 

 Bake in a hot oven for about fifteen minutes. (This recipe 

 was taken from U. S. Extension Circular ~No. 35). 



Magic Yeast Bread: 



!/2 cake magic yeast 1/2 teaspoon sugar 



1 tea cup warm water % teaspoon salt 



2 medium size potatoes 



Thoroughly cook and mash very fine the two potatoes 

 in water in which they were cooked, add salt and sugar, add 

 flour enough to make thick batter, then dissolve yeast (% 

 cake in warm water) and place the bowl in which the batter 

 is mixed in another bowl of warm water and let stand for 

 ten to fifteen minutes; allow to rise, twenty-four hours be- 

 ing usually required in cold weather. (This recipe was 

 taken from II. S. Extension Circular, No. 35). 



Dandelion or Beet Greens: 



Remove the roots, pick over the leaves, throwing away 

 all the wilted ones and wash several times to get clean. 



