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Vegetarian cookery

1891

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Presented as published in 1891. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Mix the baking powder with the flour, adding a little salt ; rub in the butter (having previously squeezed out the milk) ; add the egg, well beaten, and as much water as required to fonn a stiflT paste ; mix till quite smooth ; roll the paste three times ; then roll it again very thin; stamp or prick it ; cut out the biscuits in any form, and bake them in a rather quick oven. No. 637. — Digestive Biscuits. Mix the ^forthright flour or wheat-meal in as small a portion of water✪ Digestive Biscuits as will cause it, after much kneading or rolling, to adhere ; then roll, and cut it into biscuits, about half an inch thick and three inches square, and bake them well in a quick oven. The unfermented “forthright bread” is made in a similar way, except being formed into rolls about an inch thick, cut deeply across, and baked in a moderately hot oven. No. 638. — Endcliffe Biscuits. Two pounds of flour, quarter of a pound of butter, one pound of crushed lump sugar, one tea-spoonful of volatile salts, three quarters of a pint of new milk, and half an ounce of caraway seeds✪ Endcliffe Biscuits. Kub the butter very well in the flour ; dissolve the salts in a tea-cupful of the milk, made hot, and the sugar in the re- mainder of the milk in a saaicepan ; mix all together, adding the seeds ; roll it rather thin ; cut out the biscuits with a tin cutter, and bake in a moderately hot oven. I The biscuits should be stamped with a block set with brass wires, or well pricked with a fork. p 210 VEGETAIMAN COOKERY. No. 639. — Hard Bi.scuits, One pound of flour, and two ounces of butter✪ Hard Biscuits. Melt the butter in as much milk as wiU make the flour into a stiff paste ; beat it with a paste roller till quite smooth ; roll it thin ; cut out the biscuits ; prick them with a fork, and bake them about six minutes. No. 540. — Scotch Biscuits. One pound and a half of flour, quarter of a pound of sugar, half a pound of butter, half an ounce of caraway seeds, and quarter of an ounce of baking powder✪ Scotch Biscuits. Pour rather more than half a pint of boiling water to the butter, and let it remain till nearly cold ; mix the baking powder well wth the flour, then put in the butter and water, adding the sugar, and caraway seeds ; roll the paste, but not very thin ; cut out the biscuits with a tin cutter ; brusli them over mth a little rose-water, and sift sugar on them. No. 541. — Stamped Biscuits. One poimd of flour, quarter of a pound of butter, and one tea-spoonful of baking powder. Mix the baking powder well \vith the flour ; rub in the buttei, and add as much cold water as required to form it into a stiff paste ; knead it till quite smooth ; make it into balls, and put each into the mould of a small butter-print, or roU the paste about a third of an inch in thickness, and stamp it mth the print. No. 542. — Victoria Biscuits. One pound of flour✪ Stamped Biscuits, two ounces of butter, and two ounces of loaf sugar. Rub the butter in the flour, adding the sugar, and as much milk as will make it into a very stifi" paste ; knead it from fifteen to twenty minutes ; then roll it about the thickness of a half-crown ; cut out the biscuits in any form, and when pricked, bake them in a quick oven. VEGETARIAN COOKERY. 211 No. 543. — Yorkshire Biscuits. One pound of flour, four ounces of butter, one egg, and half a small tea-spoonful of bi-carbonate of soda✪ Yorkshire Biscuits.