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Cream-tartar Biscuit

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 8 ingredients

  1. Roast beef
  2. One pint of milk
  3. One teaspoonful of salt
  4. Two teaspoonfuls of cream-tartar
  5. One teaspoonful of soda
  6. Cut
  7. Potatoes
  8. One quart of sifted flour
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. One quart of sifted flour.
  2. Two teaspoonfuls of cream-tartar.
  3. One teaspoonful of soda.
  4. One teaspoonful of salt.
  5. One pint of milk.
  6. Mix salt, soda, and cream-tartar with flour.
  7. "Add the milk and thoroughly stir so that the alkali may evenly efiervesce.
  8. Dredge your board, turn the dough upon it, which quickly bring into a body without kneading it at all, as the success depends upon the rapid mixing and baking.
  9. Roll lightly into a sheet an inch thick.
  10. Cut into rounds with a small tin biscuit cutter.
  11. Bake in a quick oven.
  12. Sliced Cold Roast Beef.
  13. Canned Corn Oysters.
  14. Baked Potatoes.
  15. Raised Waffles.
  16. For many, there is no nicer breakfast than cold roast beef.
  17. When accompanied with corn oysters, baked potatoes and waffles, it should not fail to satisfy.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Wooden spoon
  • Spatula
  • Sieve