Maple Biscuit

Ingredients

• two cupfuls of flour
• two cupfuls of cornstarch
• two teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• half a teaspoonful of salt
• one cupful of butter
• mix with cold milk to a stiff dough

Method

1. 1

   Roll out, fold up, and roll again, repeating until the dough is flaky.

2. 2

   Roll out finally to half an inch in thickness, cut in three-inch circles, brush with butter, dredge thickly with grated maple sugar, fold over and bake twenty minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 94. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Maple Biscuit. — Beat separately nine eggs, to the yolks add four teacups flour, two teaspoons baking powder and one of vanilla. Boil as for icing, two cups granulated sugar, half cup water; pour over the well-beaten whites, turn this into the yellow batter, mix well and bake in the square flat tins. When nicely browned, remove from tins, cut in small squares and triangles; ice alternately with pink and white icing; pyramid on glass cake stand. Dainty, delicate and delicious. Maple Biscuit. — Sift together two cupfuls of flour, two cup- fuls of cornstarch, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder and half a teaspoonful of salt. Rub into these ingredients one cupful of butter and mix with cold milk to a stiff dough

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