Plain Dessert or Wine Biscuits, and Ginger Biscuits

Plain biscuits

• flour 1 lbs.
• butter, 2 oz.
• new milk about ½ p

Rub very small indeed, two ounces of fresh butter into a pound of flour, and make it into a stiff paste with new milk. Roll it out half an inch thick, and cut the biscuits with a round cutter the size of half-a-crown. Pile them one on the other until all are done; then roll them out very thin, pr