Baking Powder Biscuits

Ingredients

• one quart of flour
• three tablespoonfuls of best baking-powder
• a teaspoonful of salt
• one tablespoonful of sugar
• one large spoon of butter
• one-half of a pint of sweet milk

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients and bake in a quick oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 107. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BAKING POWDER BISCUITS. One quart of flour, three tablespoonfuls of best baking-powder, a tea- spoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of sugar, one large spoon of butter and one- half of a pint of sweet milk. Mrs. O. J. Asire. OLD-FASHIONED JOHNNY CAKE. Two cups of corn-meal, one cup of flour, a pint of buttermilk, one heaping tablespoonful of lard and one heaping teaspoonful of soda. Add one-half of a cup of sugar and a little salt. Mrs. Mary Hilton, CORN nUFFINS. Sift together one and two-thirds cupfuls of flour, one cupful of corn-meal, either white or yellow, and three level teaspoonfuls of baking- powder; beat to a cream two tablespoonfuls of butter with three table- spoonfuls of sugar and add to them three well-beaten eggs. Dilute this with a pini of milk, add a little salt, beat hard and put into two dozen small, well-buttered gem-pans. Serve hot. They bake in a few minutes. C. E. SiLLOWAY. CORN MUFFINS— No. a. One quart of nice fine corn-meal, one teaspoonful of soda and one- half of a teaspoonful of salt

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