Gem Crackers

Ingredients

• One and a half pints flour
• half a pint corn meal
• one teaspoon salt
• one teaspoon baking powder
• one tablespoon butter
• little more than one-half pint milk

Method

1. 1

   Sift together flour, corn meal, salt and powder; rub in the butter cold; add the milk, mix into a smooth rather firm dough.

2. 2

   Flour the board, turn out the dough, give it a turn or two quickly, and roll it to the thickness of one-quarter inch.

3. 3

   Cut out with a small oval cutter, prick each cracker with a fork; lay them on greased baking tin, wash over with milk, and bake in hot oven eight to ten minutes.

4. 4

   When cold, store for use.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Toronto Cook Book (1915) by Powell, E. J. Mrs.,d.b. 1853, page 17. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Gem Crackers One and a half pints flour, half a pint corn meal, one teaspoon salt, one teaspoon baking powder, one tablespoon butter, little more than one-half pint milk

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