Breakfast Biscuit

Ingredients

• 1 quart sweet milk
• 1/2 cup melted butter
• 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder
• flour enough to make a stiff batter

Method

1. 1

   Do not knead into dough, but drop into buttered tins from a spoon; bake in a hot oven — unless it is hot they will not be light and tender.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Royal baker and pastry cook (1913) by Royal Baking Powder Company, page 8. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Breakfast Biscuit. — Take 1 quart sweet milk, Vi cup melted butter, a little salt, 2 tea¬ spoons Royal Baking Powder, flour enough to make a stiff batter; do not knead into dough, but drop into buttered tins from a spoon ; bake in a hot oven — unless it is hot they will not be light and tender. Et IS ABSOLUTELY PURE THE ROYAL BAKER Emergency Biscuit. — 2 cups flour, y tea¬ spoon salt, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder; mix and sift ; rub in 1 tablespoon butter. Mix to a thick batter with milk, drop by small spoonfuls on greased pans, and bake in quick oven. Egg Biscuit. — Mix and sift well together 1 pint flour, y teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon sugar, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder. Beat 1 egg, add y cup milk, stir into dry mixture, adding more milk if necessary to mix to soft dough. Turn out on board, knead for a moment, cut into circles, place 1 inch apart on greased pans. Brush with little beaten egg, and bake in very hot oven. Sandwich Biscuit. — Sift together 1 pint flour, y teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon Royal Bak¬ ing Powder. Rub in 1 heaping tablespoon but¬ ter. Mix to a soft dough with milk. Roll out % inch thick. Cut into rounds. On V2 of the rounds spread a little soft butter, add a thick layer of finely chopped and seasoned cold meat ; cover with remaining rounds and press together. Brush tops with milk, place 1 inch apart on greased pans, and bake in hot oven. Nut Biscuit. — Sift together 2 cups flour, y2 teaspoon salt, 1 heaping teaspoon Royal Bak¬ ing Powder. Rub in 1 heaping tablespoon butter, add 1 cup ground or very finely chop¬ ped nuts — English walnuts, hickory-nuts, or almonds — and 2 tablespoons sugar; mix to a soft dough with milk. Mold with the hands into small balls, place well apart on greased pans, brush each with milk, put a pinch of chopped nuts on top, and bake in hot oven. Royal Muffins. — Beat 3 eggs, add 1 pint milk, y teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon sugar, and sufficient flour to make a drop batter — about 3 cups — into which has been thoroughly sifted 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder

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