Camper's Bread

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 pints of flour
• 1 1/2 rounded teaspoonfuls of baking-powder
• 1/2 teaspoonful of salt
• 2 rounded teaspoonfuls of any kind of fat (lard is best)
• 1/2 pint of cold water

Method

1. 1

   Mix baking powder and salt into flour, rub in lard until smooth, then add water gradually.

2. 2

   Grease a pan, spread dough in a thin layer, and bake until a sliver comes out clean.

3. 3

   Serve warm, breaking into pieces.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The fun of cooking (1915) by Caroline French Benton, page 33. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

x ^ teaspoonful of salt. y^ teaspoonful of pepper. 1 tablespoonful of molasses or sugar. % teaspoonful of dry mustard. Pour this all over the beans and cover the pan; put in the oven, and bake at least two hours; uncover and brown during* the last twenty minutes. If the beans get very dry, pour on half a c^p of boiling water when they are half done. **Aha!'* said Father Blair, as he put the pan in the oven when they were ready to bake. * * Those will be simply fine. Now we could have made them by putting them in a kettle over the fire and baking them so, or we could have buried the kettle in a hole in the ashes; but they are really better done in an oven if one happens to have one. And, anyway, I needed a stove to bake biscuit in, so that *s why I got one. I think we will make some for supper, too, and put them in when the beans come out. The name of the one big biscuit I 'm going to make to-night is CAMPER'S BREAD 1% pints of flour. 1% rounded teaspoonf uls of baking-powder. % teaspoonful of salt. IN CAMP 147 2 rounded teaspoonfuls of any kind of fat (lard is best). ^ pint of cold water.

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