Nut Biscuits

Ingredients

  • 2 cupfuls flour
  • 1/2 teaspoonful salt
  • 1 tablespoonful butter
  • 1 cupful chopped nuts
  • 2 tablespoonfuls butter
  • 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
  • 2 tablespoonfuls sugar
  • 3/4 cupful milk

Directions

Sift together the flour, salt, and taking powder; rub in the butter, add the nuts--English walnuts, hickory nuts, or almonds--and sugar; mix to a soft dough with milk. Mold with the hands into small balls, place well apart on greased pans, brush each with milk, put a pinch of chopped nuts on top, and bake in a hot oven.