Cream Biscuit

Ingredients

• I quart .flour
• i cup butter
• 1 pint sweet milk
• 2 eggs
• i teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons baking-powder

Method

1. 1

   Make the same as baking powder biscuit, using cream (or if very rich use half cream and milk) in place of milk and butter.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Queen Cook Book: A Careful Compilation of Recipes and Practical ... (1895) by William Hart Boyd, page 4. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cream Biscuit. Cream biscuit and cream short cake are made the same as baking powder biscuit, using cream (or if very rich use half cream and milk) in place of milk and butter. Rusks. I cup sugar 2 cups milk 1 cup butter J^ cup yeast 2 eggs I teaspoon salt Stir butter and sugar to a cream; add the eggs beaten separately, then the milk warm, and yeast, with flour enough to make a sponge; let this stand in a warm place till light, then knead in flour enough to make soft biscuits; cut with cutter and put in baking pan, let them stand three hours; bake forty minutes in a moderate oven. It is always best to set the sponge at night, then it is ready to bake the next morning. If they are desired warm for tea, they can be set early in the morning. G ALETTES. I quart flour ^ cup yeast 5^ pint sweet milk i even teaspoon salt J^ cup butter i tablespoon sugar 3 eggs Use what flour yo need for the sponge, set to rise, keep warm, when light work in the rest of flour, roll out, cut round, handling the dough as lightly as possible. Set to rise; when light bake fifteen minutes in a hot oven. Brush the top with egg. These are most delicious. Eat hot, or when cold split and toast. l8 The Queen Cook Book Sally Lunn, Raised. 3 pints flour i tablespoon sugar I pint milk 3 eggs beaten separately J^ cup yeast i teaspoon salt Butter the size of aYi egg Warm the milk, and soften the butter. Mix it in morning if wanted for tea. This must be stirred, let rise, when light, stir down and pour into dripping pans, let Sally take another rise. Bake from three- fourths to one hour. This is broken up. Sally Lunn with Baking-Powder. I quart .flour i cup butter 1 pint sweet milk 2 eggs, i teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking-powder

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