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.
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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.
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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.
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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 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.
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.
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No. 639. — Hard Bi.scuits,
One pound of flour, and two ounces of butter.
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.
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, 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.
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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.