Peanut Butter Biscuits

Ingredients

• 2 cupfuls flour
• 4 teaspoonfuls baking powder
• 1 tablespoonful lard
• 3 tablespoonfuls peanut butter
• 14 teaspoonful salt
• 1 tablespoonful sugar
• Enough milk to make soft dough

Method

1. 1

   Sift the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar into a bowl.

2. 2

   Cut in the lard and peanut butter with a knife, or rub them with tips of the fingers.

3. 3

   Beat eggs and add them with sufficient milk to make a soft dough.

4. 4

   Turn out on a floured baking board, knead lightly, roll out, cut with a cutter, brush over with a little beaten egg, sprinkle with sugar, and bake from twelve to fifteen minutes in a moderate oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Annie Dennis cook book (1905) by Annie E. Dennis, page 42. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

teaspoonful of baking powder, half teaspoon- ful of salt, two-thirds teacupful of thin cream. Sift the salt, baking powder and flour together; mix to a verj^ soft dough with the cream, using a spoon. Sift some flour on the rolling board, turn out the dough, sift more flour over it and roll half an inch thick; cut and stick the biscuit, lift from the board to the baking pan with a battercake turner, and bake in a moderately quick oven twenty or twenty-five minutes. The gluten flour swells almost as much as meal in mixing, necessitating the use of more liquid than ordinary flour. Potato Biscuit Wash and boil six small sweet potatoes with peeling on. When soft, take them out, peel and mash through a coarse sieve. Sift one quart of flour, and with it one level teaspoonful of soda; add one pint of the potato (to which has been added a heaping teaspoonful of sugar), one kitchenspoonful of lard, salt and buttermilk to make a rather stiff dough ; mix thoroughly and bake in a quick oven. They should be eaten hot, with butter. Peanut Butter Biscuits 4 teaspoonful baking 1 tablespoonful lard powder 3 tablespoonfuls peanut 2 cupfuls flour butter 14 teaspoonful salt Enough milk to make soft 1 tablespoonful sugar dough Sift the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar into a bowl. Cut in the lard and peanut butter with a knife, or rub them with tips of the fingers. Beat eggs and add them with sufficient milk to make a soft dough

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