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Baking Powder Biscuit

From Household hints, 1881
Presented as published in 1881. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Household hints (1881) by Emma Whitcomb Babcock, page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baking Powder Biscuit. — To a quart of flour allow three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, sift thoroughly into the flour, add a small lump of butter, mix with milk or with milk and water

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