Leaven Biscuit

Ingredients

• 1 tea-cup leaven from light bread
• 0.5 pint flour
• 1 teaspoonful salt
• 1 quart flour
• 1 level teaspoonful soda
• 1 tablespoonful lard
• 0.5 tablespoonful butter

Instructions

1. Save a piece of leaven from light bread you mix or make up over night, about the size of a tea-cup.
2. Mix the leaven soft in water.
3. Add half a pint of flour to the leaven mixture and one teaspoonful of salt.
4. Set the leaven mixture to rise over night.
5. Next morning, take one level quart of flour and put a level teaspoonful of soda into it.
6. Sift the flour and soda together.
7. Rub one tablespoonful of lard and half a tablespoonful of butter into the flour until thoroughly mixed.
8. Add the risen leaven mixture to the flour mixture and work it together with your hands until light.
9. Make off the dough into biscuits and put them to rise in a baking pan for twenty minutes.
10. Bake brown.