Maryland Biscuit, Vo. 1

Ingredients

• One quart of flour
• half a cup of butter
• half a teaspoon of salt
• cold milk to make a stiff dough
• four tablespoonsful of yeast

Method

1. 1

   Rub half a cup of butter into one quart of flour, add half a teaspoon of salt, and make a stiff dough with cold milk.

2. 2

   Knead a little, then turn out on a paste-board, and beat with a rolling-pin for twenty minutes.

3. 3

   Roll out half an inch thick, cut into small round cakes, prick with a fork, and bake for about fifteen minutes in well-greased pans.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The economical cook book (1905) by Sara T. Paul, page 70. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

four tablespoonsful of yeast ; let it rise all night, if for breakfast — if for tea, set it at noon. Before baking, add half a small teaspoonful of saleratus ; pour into a shallow pan, which has been buttered, and bake half an hour in a good oyen. * Bye Bread. Make a sponge in the eyening with three pints of tepid water and rye flour to make a stiff batter ; add a teacup of yeast; in the morning stir in with a spoon rye flour until you haye it not quite as stiff as wheat bread ; put it in greased pans, wet your hand in cold water and smooth the tops of the loayes^ set them in a warm place to rise for an hour, or until to the tops of the pans; then bake. This quantity will make three good-siied loayes. Add a teacup of yeast to the sponge in the eyening. * Bread Biseuit When the bread is kneaded ready to go in the pass, set away in a cool place a pint-bowl of it; at twelve o'clock beat it with an egg, a piece of butter the siie of an egg, and half a cup of BREAD, CAKES, dte. 148 rich milk. WLen thoroughly inoorporated, stir in as much flour as you will need to roll them ont^ knead it into a loaf, and set it to rise in a warm place. When yery light, torn it on to the paste-board, roll it out, and cut into bisonit; put them in pans, let them rise about half an hour longer, and bake about fifteen minutes in a quick oyen. Maryland Biscuit, Vo. 1. One quart of flour, rub in it with your hands half a oup of butter, half a teaspoon of salt

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.