Good Morning Biscuits

Ingredients

• tablespoon butter
• egg, well beaten
• tablespoon sugar
• teaspoon lard
• pint of milk
• heaping teaspoon salt
• V-2 yeast cake dissolved in
• J/4 cup lukewarm water
• 6 cups flour

Method

1. 1

   Pour milk, butter, salt, lard, and sugar into a double boiler and scald; let mixture cool until lukewarm; then dissolve yeast and stir into the mixture.

2. 2

   When mixture has cooled, add 2.5 cups of flour and mix into a stiff batter.

3. 3

   Then add one well-beaten egg to the batter and put in a warm place to rise.

4. 4

   After about five hours, knead as for biscuits using the balance of the flour, and when the dough can be handled easily roll out to 0.5 inch thickness.

5. 5

   Cut with a biscuit cutter, butter the tops of biscuits, placing one on top of the other to form a double biscuit, and place in pan far enough apart so that they will not touch each other.

6. 6

   Bake for about 30 minutes in a hot oven (400° F.).

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Southern cook book of fine old recipes (1935) by Lillie S. Lustig, page 35. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Good Morning Biscuits tablespoon butter egg, well beaten tablespoon sugar teaspoon lard pint of milk heaping teaspoon salt V-2 yeast cake dissolved in J/4 cup lukewarm water 6 cups flour

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