Cream Biscuit

Ingredients

• two cupfuls of flour
• half a cupful of sour cream
• half a cupful of sour milk or buttermilk
• one teaspoonful of baking-powder
• one of sugar
• half a teaspoonful of salt
• half a teaspoonful of soda

Method

1. 1

   Mix the sugar, salt, and baking-powder with the flour, and rub through a sieve.

2. 2

   Dissolve the soda in two tablespoonfuls of cold water, and add it to the sour milk and cream.

3. 3

   Stir quickly and well, then mix with the dry ingredients.

4. 4

   Pat into a cake about half an inch thick, cut into small cakes, and bake in a hot oven for about eight or ten minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 422. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cream Biscuit. Use for a small pan of biscuit two cupfuls of flour, half a cupful of sour cream, half a cupful of sour milk or buttermilk, one teaspoonful of baking-powder, one of sugar, half a teaspoonful of salt, and half a teaspoonful of soda

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