Graham Wafers

Ingredients

• 1 pint white flour
• 1 pint Graham flour
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• Cold water enough to make a stiff dough

Method

1. 1

   Roll out very thin, cut in squares, and bake quickly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Lincoln's Boston cook book (1884) by Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln,", page 61. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

cup sugar. 1 saltspoonful salt. 2 cups fine granulated wheat flour, or enough to make a stiff dough. Knead fifteen minutes, or till stiff enough to roll out thin as a wafer. Cut with a biscuit cutter, and bake on un- greased tins in a very hot oven. The sugar will sweeten the sour cream sufficiently. Fine Granulated Wheat Gems (no Yeast, Soda, nor Eggs). 1 cup water. 1 1 saltspoonful salt. 1 cup milk. I cups fine granulated wheat. Stir the flour slowtyinto the liquid, until you have a drop batter. Then beat as rapidly and as long as 3^our arm will allow. Have the iron gem pans hissing hot, and well buttered. Fill quickly, giving the batter a brisk beating several times during the filling, and bake at once in a very hot oven. 96 The Boston Cook Book. Maryland, or Beaten Biscuit. (Mrs, Towne.) 1 quart flour. I 3^ teaspoonful salt, cup lard. | 1 cup cold water. Eub the lard and salt into the flour, and mix with cold water to a very stiff dough. Knead ten minutes, or until well mixed ; then beat hard with a biscuit beater or heavy rolling-pin, turning the mass over and over until it begins to blister and looks light and puffy, or till, pulling off a piece quickl}^, it will give a sharp, snapping sound." When in this condition, pull off a small piece suddenly, form it into a round biscuit, then pinch off a bit from the top. Turn over and press with the thumb, leaving a hollow in the centre. Put the biscuit some distance apart in the pan. Prick with a fork. Bake twenty minutes in a quick oven. They should be light, of a fine, even grain, and crack at the edges like our crackers. In Maryland no young lady's education was formerly considered finished until she had learned the art of making beaten biscuit. Graham Wafers. 1 pint white flour. 1 saltspoonful salt. 1 pint Graham flour. Cold water enough to make a stiff 1^ cup butter.

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