dolo wrote:

> "Bob (this one)" > wrote
>
>>... is driving me crazy.
>>
>>I've seen one and simply can't recall where it was. Anybody seen it?
>>It's a poem, obviously American, that tells how to make the biscuits.
>>
>>Pastorio
>>
> I can't find the whole lyric, but, from Maria Howard Weeden's "Bandanna
> Ballads":
>
> "Two hundred licks is what I give
> for home folks, never fewer
> An'if I'm 'specting company in,
> I gives five hundred sure!"

'Zackly the one I've been trying to recall. Thanks. I posted it to the
SavoryFare2 list where there's been a lengthy thread about beaten
biscuits and now you're famous. >

Thanks.

Pastorio