Baking Powder Biscuit
A historical recipe from Lowney's Cook Book Illustrated in Colors, by Maria Willett Howard (1907).
A historical recipe
Lowney's Cook Book Illustrated in Colors, by Maria Willett Howard (1907). Project Gutenberg eBook #52800.
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Credit
From Lowney's Cook Book Illustrated in Colors, by Maria Willett Howard (1907). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #52800 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52800). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.
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Ingredients 3 ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons lard
- 1 cup milk
Method
- 2 cups sifted flour 2 tablespoons butter or 2 tablespoons lard or 1 tablespoon butter and 1 tablespoon lard 1 teaspoon salt 4 teaspoons baking powder ¾ to 1 cup milk or half milk and half water Mix and sift the dry ingredients.
- Add shortening and chop with knife until mealy.
- Add milk gradually until a soft spongy dough.
- Turn on to a floured board;
- toss with knife until whole surface is floured;
- pat lightly with rolling pin until one half inch thick.
- Cut in rounds and bake immediately on buttered sheet in quick oven, about twelve minutes.
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