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Biscuit (Sour Milk)

From The Pattern cook-book, 1890

Serves 8

The milk should be unmistakably sour.

Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 157. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BISCUIT. (sour milk.) Make the same as the baking-powder biscuit, but use one even tea-spoonful of pulverized soda instead of the baking powder, and moisten with sour milk instead of sweet

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