Oatmeal Biscuit

Ingredients

• 3 cups boiling water
• 1 cup oatmeal
• 1 scant teaspoonful salt
• one large tablespoonful of butter
• half a cup of sugar

Method

1. 1

   Pour the boiling water on the oatmeal; add the salt, and cook three hours in a double boiler.

2. 2

   While still warm, add butter and sugar.

3. 3

   When cool, add flour to make a stiff dough.

4. 4

   Let it rise overnight.

5. 5

   In the morning, bake in gem pans for twenty minutes or until brown.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Lincoln's Boston cook book (1884) by Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln,", page 58. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Oatmeal Biscuit. {Miss Barnes,) 3 cups boiling water. I 1 scant teaspoonful salt. 1 cup oatmeal. | Pour the water on the oatmeal ; add the salt, and cook three hours in a double boiler. Vfhile still warm, add orie large tahlespoonful of butter^ and half a cup of sugar

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