Maryland Biscuit

Ingredients

• one tablespoon butter
• one tablespoon lard
• one quart sifted flour
• one teaspoon salt
• milk enough to make a stiff dough

Method

1. 1

   Use the hands in mixing dough.

2. 2

   When the milk, flour and shortening have been thoroughly mixed, flour the bread-board, lay dough on it and beat it with rolling pin until it blisters and cracks loudly.

3. 3

   This beating will occupy at least one half hour.

4. 4

   When the blisters are abundant, tear off pieces of dough as large as an egg, mold with hand in the form of a biscuit.

5. 5

   Prick the top of each biscuit with fork and bake in moderate oven.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Choice recipes (1900), page 2. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MARYLAND BISCUIT— Miss Annie Laughlin Rub one tablespoon butter and one tablespoon lard into one quart sifted flour, one teaspoon salt, milk enough to make a stiff lO

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