Mix together
1b. of flour, 1oz. of butter, and a teaspoonful each of baking powder and sugar (or salt); rub the butter well into the flour till it forms a nice paste, moistening this with half a pint of new milk or single cream; divide this quantity in two, roll these halves into largish rounds, which are cut across and across into eight triangles, and bake for five minutes, turning them once, on the girdle. If you have no cream or new milk, use 2oz. of butter and sweet milk.