Baking-Powder Biscuit (Another Method)

Ingredients

• Two cups of flour
• four teaspoonfuls of baking-powder
• two tablespoonfuls of butter
• three-quarters of a cup of milk
• one-half a teaspoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Mix and bake as for previous recipe.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Soyer's standard cookery (1912) by Nicolas Soyer, page 239. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baking-Powder Biscuit. (Another Method.) Two cups of flour, four teaspoonfuls of baking-powder, two tablespoonfuls of butter, three-quarters of a cup of milk, one- half a teaspoonful of salt. Mix and bake as for previous recipe. Emergency Biscuit. Use recipe for baking-powder biscuit (previous recipe), with the addition of more milk, that mixture may be dropped from spoon without spreading. Drop by spoonfuls on a but- tered pan, one-half inch apart. Brush over with milk, and bake in hot oven eight minutes. Mountain Muffins. One-quarter cup of butter, one-quarter cup of sugar, one egg, one-quarter cup of milk, two cups of flour, three teaspoon- fuls of baking powder. Cream the butter; add sugar and egg well beaten; sift bak- ing powder with flour, and add to the first mixture, alternating with milk. Bake in buttered tin gem pans twenty-five minutes. 350 STANDARD COOKERY. Rye Muffins. One and a quarter cups of rye meal, one and a quarter cups of flour, four teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one teaspoonful of salt, one-quarter cup of molasses, one and a quarter cups of milk, one egg, one tablespoonful of melted butter. Mix and bake as Mountain muffins, adding molasses with milk. Rye Gems. One and two-thirds cups of rye flour, one and a third cups of flour, four teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one teaspoonful of salt, one-quarter cup of molasses, one and a quarter cups of milk, two eggs, three tablespoonfuls of melted butter. Mix and sift dry ingredients, add molasses, milk, eggs well beaten, and butter. Bake in hot oven in buttered gem pans twenty-five minutes. Cornmeal Gems. One-Ealf a cup of cornmeal, one cup of flour, three teaspoon- fuls of baking powder, one tablespoonful of sugar, one table- spoonful of melted butter, one-half a teaspoonful of salt

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