Butter Biscuits

Ingredients

• half a pound of flour
• six ounces of butter
• a quarter of a pound of arrowroot
• a quarter of a pound of corn flour
• just enough milk to form an elastic dough

Method

1. 1

   Rub butter into flour, mix with arrowroot and corn flour, add milk to form dough.

2. 2

   Knead slightly, roll to half an inch thick, cut into rounds, prick, and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The handy dictionary of cookery (1890) by Mary A. Everard, page 21. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Butter Biscuits. Place in a bowl half a pound of flour; rub finely into it six ounces of butter. Take a quarter of a pound of arrowroot and a quarter of a pound of corn flour; pass them through a hair sieve, mix them well with the flour and butter, then add just enough milk to form an elastic dough

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