Tea Biscuits

All Purpose Flour                  2 cups
Granulated Sugar                   2 tbsp.
Salt                                         1 tsp.
Baking Powder                       4 tsp.
Cream of Tarter                      1/2 tsp.


Cold Butter or Margarine       1/2 cup
Cold Milk                               1 cup



Mix up the first five ingredients in a mixing bowl. Then cut in the butter till it's crumbly. Add the milk, and stir quickly. The dough should be good and soft. Roll out on a lightly floured surface and kneed gently eight to ten times. Roll the dough out half the thickness that you want the end result to be. Cut the biscuits out with a round cookie cutter or a canning jar ring works great, too! For soft sides, place close together or for crisp sides, place apart on the greased cookie sheet.  Bake at 450 F or 230 C for 12-15 minutes. Makes about ten biscuits.

From the 'Company's Coming' cook book.

P.S. My brothers always look forward to these biscuits!