Biscuits

Ingredients

• 2 lb. Flour
• 1 lb. Butter
• 1 Egg
• a little Sugar
• Milk to make a thick paste

Method

1. 1

   Make each biscuit round, about 0.5 oz. in weight.

2. 2

   Bake immediately in quick oven 3 or 4 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Tried favourites cookery book (1909) by Kirk, E. W. Mrs, page 143. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

biscuits may have top crust wet with a little melted butter. Then brown a minute after steaming. Sugar Cakes for Afternoon Tea. Cream 4 oz. of butter, add 2 oz. of sugar (beating well), 4 oz. of flour, 1 teaspoonful of baking powder, 1 tablespoonful of milk, and the yolk of an egg beaten up. Turn out on a floured board, roll out and cut into any fancied shape. Bake 5 minutes in sharp oven. 152 TRIED E AY OD RITES COOKERY BOOK. Whea.ten Mea.! Scones. 3 teaoupfula of Wheaten Flour, 1 teaeupM of Flour, 1 teaRpoonful of Soda 1 do. Cream of Tartar, 1 do. Sugar, ^ do. Salt, 1 dessertspoonful Butter or Margarine, about a breakfastcupful of Butter-milk. Mix in the same way as the white scones, and fire on a girdle or in a quick oven for about 10 minutes. Wheaten Meal Loaf (Steamed). 1 lb. 'Wheaten Meal, 1 teaspoonful Carbonate of Soda, 1 do. Suear. i do Cream of Tartar, ^ do. of Salt. Mix with butter-milk into a soft dough. Steam for 2 hours in a deep cake pan with a buttered paper tied over the top. Care must bo taken that no water gets into the pan while steaming. SMALL BISCUITS. Secret in having very light flaky biscuits is to handle as little as possible and get quickly into hot even. Abernethy Biscuits. Dissolve ^ lb. butter, in ^ pint warm milk; 4 lb. flour, a few carraways, ^ lb. sugar, and make stiff but smooth paste. To render biscuits short and light, add drachm carbonate of ammonia in powder. Roll very thin. Cut, prick with fork, and bake on tins in quick ovfen. Arrowroot Biscuits. 2 oz. Arrowroot, 4 oz. Flour, 1 Egg, 1 oz. Sugar, 3 oz. Butter, 1 teaspoonful Baking Powder. Rub the butter and flour well together, then add the other ingre- dients except the baking powder and egg ; add these last. Roll out and cut in shapes, and bake until firm. Biscuits. 2 lb. Flour, 1 lb. Butter, 1 Egg, a little Sugar, Milk to make a thick paste

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