Instructions: Sift flour, salt, bicarbonate of soda, cream of tartar together.

Rub in butter until mixture looks like bread crumbs.

Dissolve sugar in milk, stir into flour/butter mixture.

Form into stiff dough.

Roll out to a thickness of 1/4 inch.

Cut in squares; prick all over.

Bake in oven at 350 F (180 C) for 20 minutes.

Makes about 10 biscuits.

NOTES : A popular biscuit, as the Scots call cookies, to go with a cup of tea.

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