Baking Powder Biscuit No. 1

Ingredients

• two cups of flour
• one cup of sweet milk
• two teaspoons baking powder
• one half teaspoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Sift salt, baking powder, and flour together, add milk, and beat to a smooth dough.

2. 2

   Turn onto a floured board, roll into a sheet about an inch thick, cut into cakes, lay in a baking pan, and bake in a quick oven until done.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The art of cookery (1899) by Emma P. Ewing, page 89. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one half teaspoonful of salt. Sift the salt, baking powder, and flour together, add the milk, and beat to a smooth dough. Turn upon a well-floured molding board, dust with flour, and roll into a sheet about an inch in thickness. Dip the biscuit cutter in flour, cut the sheet of dough into cakes, lay in a baking pan, and bake in a quick oven until thoroughly done. Baking Powder Biscuit No. 2 — Two cups of flour, one cup sweet milk, two tablespoonfuls melted butter, two teaspoons baking powder, and half a teaspoonful of salt. Mix as in No. i, add the melted butter, after all the milk is in, beat well through the dough, then pro- ceed as before. Baking Powder Biscuit No. 3. — Two cups flour, one cup cold water, one tablespoon butter, two teaspoons baking powder, one half teaspoon salt. Sift the bak- ing powder and salt with the flour. Rub the butter through it with a limber-bladed knife, add the cold water, mix well with a spoon, then proceed as in No. i. 198 The Art of Cookery. Wheat Muffins No. i. — One and a half cups of flour, one cup of sweet milk

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