Crackers
From Virginia Cookery-book, 1884
Serves 12
Plainer ones are made in the same way, by omitting the soda and beating more.
Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record
Ingredients
Method
As published
This recipe was extracted from Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
To three pints of flour put one teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in sour milk ; shorten as you would biscuit- dough, with a table-spoonful of butter and lard mixed
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