Biscuits, Royal

Ingredients

• one pint of flour
• one heaping teaspoonful of Royal baking-powder
• one-half teaspoonful of salt
• one teaspoonful of sugar
• I oz. of pure lard
• one-half pint of cold milk

Method

1. 1

   Butter a cake pan, sift flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar into a bowl.

2. 2

   Chop lard into flour, make a hollow, pour in milk, mix into a smooth dough, roll out to one inch thick, cut into rounds, brush with melted butter, and bake for 12-15 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 39. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Biscuits, Royal (Mrs. Lemcke). — Butter a square cake -pan and dust it with flour ; put one pint of flour into a sieve, add one heaping teaspoonful of Royal baking-powder, one-half tea- spoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of sugar, and sift the whole into a bowl ; add I oz. of pure lard, chop the lard fine in the flour with a table - knife, then make a hollow in the centre, pour in one-half pint of cold milk

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