Last week I gave you a recipe from the cookbook that was published by the Tunica Woman’s Club in 1921.  Some of the recipes included ingredients that most of us don’t use any more:  lard, for instance.  A recipe for biscuits called for “one light quart of flour, lump of lard the size of a goose egg, level t. salt, and a gill of sweet milk.  Beat until the dough blisters well.” 

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