ORANGE BISCUITS

Sift together
2 cups bread flour
5 teaspoons baking powder and
1 teaspoon salt. With tips of fingers rub in
2 tablespoons shortening. Twenty minutes before the meal is to be
served add
7/8 cup milk, mixing with a knife. Roll out 3/4 inch thick and cut with
round cutter 1 inch in diameter. Place close together on a greased tin
sheet. Break
16 lumps demi-tasse loaf sugar in halves and squeeze the
Juice of 1/2 orange. Dip pieces of sugar one at a time in the orange
juice and push a piece down in the center of each biscuit. Grate
Orange rind over the biscuits and bake 15 minutes in a hot oven
or at 450 degrees F.



PLAIN PASTRY

Put in mixing bowl
5 tablespoons shortening
3 tablespoons ice water and
1/2 teaspoon salt, and work until creamy, using wooden spoon. Add
1 cup pastry flour and mix by cutting with a knife.
Sprinkle pastry cloth or board with