Grandmother Davis's Soda Biscuits

Ingredients

• 1 quart of flour
• 2 teaspoonsful of baking powder
• 1 teaspoonful of salt
• 1 tablespoonful of very fresh lard
• 1 cupful of milk

Method

1. 1

   Mix together in a bowl, then add lard.

2. 2

   Mix with the hand quickly.

3. 3

   Toss on slightly-floured board, pat and roll out.

4. 4

   Cut with biscuit cutter.

5. 5

   Bake in hot oven.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Aunts' Cook Book (1922) by [name missing], page 3. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

er 2 teaspoonsful baking powder }4, cup sugar 1 teaspoonful salt 3^ cup flour 2 eggs — beaten separately Not quite a full cup of corn J^ cup milk meal Cream butter and sugar. Mix other dry ingredients to- gether. Add beaten yolks of eggs to butter and sugar — then milk and dry ingredients and lastly whites of eggs. Bake in pan of medium depth. Bread and Buns 9 Aunt Mattie's India Spoon Bread 1 cup boiled rice Scald one cup milk 1 cup corn meal 1 heaping tablespoon melted butter Pour hot milk and melted butter into corn meal. Add rice and 3 eggs (well beaten). Add J^ cup cold milk and 2 heaping teaspoons baking powder. Bake 20 minutes and serve hot. Aunt Virginia's Graham Gems 2 cups of Graham flour l}/^ pints of milk 1 cup of white flour 2 eggs and pinch of salt Mixed and baked in iron pans. The batter needs to be very thin. Aunt Virginia's Wheat Muffins 1 pint of flour 3 eggs beaten separately, 2 light teaspoons and very lightly of baking powder Milk to make moderately J^ teaspoon of salt. thin batter These sifted together 2 tablespoons of melted butter Bake from 20 to 30 minutes. 10 Bread and Buns Aunt Virginia's Blueberry Bread or Muffins 1 pt. flour 2 scant teaspoons of sugar 5^ cup of milk Pinch of Salt 1 egg, 1 heaping cup of huckle- 2 teaspoons melted butter berries 2 heaping teaspoons baking powder Beat the egg very light and add the milk, then the flour, baking powder and sugar, sifted together. Then the salt, butter and last of all the berries, rubbing them through the flour first. Bake half an hour, in a long pan or muffin tins. Aunt Mattie's Huckleberry Muffins ^ cup of butter 1 cup milk 1 cup of sugar 3 cups flour 4 eggs Make batter same as cake. Add 2 heaping teaspoons baking powder. Stir into batter 2 cups huckleberries. Bake in muffin tins. Eat hot — buttered. Uncle Tom's Huckleberry Muffins (from Aunt Mattie) 3^ cup sugar 1 cup milk 3 tablespoonsful butter J^ teaspoonful salt 2 eggs beaten separately 3 teaspoonsful baking powder 2 cups flour 2 cups blueberries or huckleberries well floured and beaten in at the last. Bake twenty minutes in muffin pans in a moderate oven. Bread and Buns 11 Aunt Elizabeth's Blueberry Muffins 2 cups of flour 3^ cup of sugar 2 teaspoons of baking powder 2 eggs 3^ teaspoon of salt 1 cup of milk ^ cup of butter 1 cup of blueberries Bake in muflin pans. Aunt Emery's Muffins yi cup butter 1 cup milk ]4: cup sugar 2 cups bread flour 3^ teaspoon salt 5 teaspoons baking powder legg Cream the butter. Add sugar and egg well beaten. Sift baking powder with flour and add to first mixture, alternating with milk. Bake in buttered gem pans 25 minutes. Aunt Gertrude's Bran Muffins 2 tablespoonsful molasses 3^ pint of sour cream (N. O. or Barbadoes) 1 egg well beaten J^ teaspoonful of soda J^ pint bread flour 3^ teaspoonful of salt 3^ pint of bran Mix ingredients in order given. Beat well and bake 30 minutes in well-greased gem pans. 12 Bread and Buns Grandmother Davis's Soda Biscuits (from Aunt Mattie) 1 quart of flour 2 teaspoonsful of baking 1 teaspoonful of salt powder Mix together in a bowl, then add 1 tablespoonful of very fresh lard and 1 cupful of milk

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