Baking Powder Biscuit

Ingredients

• two cups of flour
• four teaspoons of baking powder
• one half teaspoon of salt
• four tablespoons of butter or lard
• three fourths cup of milk or water

Method

1. 1

   Mix and sift flour, baking powder, and salt.

2. 2

   Add butter or lard and blend until flaky.

3. 3

   Make a well, pour in milk or water, and stir until a soft dough forms.

4. 4

   Roll out to one inch thick, cut with a biscuit cutter, and bake for 12-15 minutes in a hot oven.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Principles of cooking (1914) by Emma Conley, page 40. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baking Powder Biscuit and Variations. — These variations of biscuit are shortcake, dumplings, fruit pudding, fruit roll, pin-wheel biscuit, Dutch apple cake, nut bread, meat pie. They are made like a biscuit dough, but differ in the amount of shortening, liquid, or sugar used. Nore. — The teacher may teach as many of these recipes as she has time for. The most important at this time are biscuit, apple dumplings, and short- cakes, because they give practice in handling the dough and perfecting the pupils’ knowledge of biscuit making. The other recipes may be worked in when lessons that require long cooking are given and the pupils have little work to do. Such lessons are those on cooking of legumes and the meat lessons. Another reason for giving several recipes that may be used later in the work is that a review of a process impresses it on the mind. For the same reason more recipes are often included than the teacher can use with some classes. Usually one recipe constitutes a lesson, for a ninety- minute period, if some time is devoted to recitation. Baking Powder Biscuit. — Mix and sift together two cups of flour, four teaspoons of baking powder, one half teaspoon of salt. Add four tablespoons of butter or lard, and work it in with a fork, until it is perfectly blended and the flour is flaky. Make a well in the center of the flour, and pour in three fourths cup of milk or water

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