Biscuit

Ingredients

• Flour 2 quarts
• Butter 2 tablespoonfuls
• Salt 1 teaspoonful
• Baking powder 2 teaspoonfuls
• Baking soda 1 teaspoonful
• Sour milk sufficient

Method

1. 1

   Sift the flour and thoroughly mix in the salt and baking powder dry.

2. 2

   In warm weather work in the butter cold, but in cold weather melt and work in.

3. 3

   Mash and dissolve the soda in a cup with a little of the milk, then pour it into the flour, and mix, adding more milk until the flour is all wet up.

4. 4

   Cut out and mould, place in tins, and bake in a quick oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 18 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide (1882) by M'Millan, Alexander M. D., page 69. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BISCUIT Flour 2 quarts. Butter 2 table-spoonfuls. Salt I tea-spoonful. Baking powder 2 tea-spoonfuls. Baking soda i tea-spoonful. Sour milk sufficient. Sift the flour and thoroughly mix in the salt and baking powder dry. In warm weather work in the butter cold, but in cold weather melt and work in. Mash and dissolve the soda in a cup with a little of the milk, then pour it into the flour, and mix, adding more milk until the flour is all wet up. Cut out and mould, place in tins, and bake in a quick oven. GEMS. Graham meal (or flour) 2 quarts. Add salt and warm water, stirring thoroughly, make a thick batter and put into hot pans and bake in a hot oven. baker's division. 215 PALMER HOUSE ROLLS. Flour I quart. Make a well in the center heaping the flour high as possible about it, pour in one-half cup of yeast. Warm milk one-half pint. White sugar i tea-spoonful. Butter I table-spoonful. Salt I tea-spoonfu

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.