Plain Crackers

Ingredients

• 2 quarts flour
• 1 cup butter
• 1 teaspoon salt
• cold water

Method

1. 1

   Into the flour rub well with the hand the butter and salt; wet with cold water, beat thoroughly with the rolling pin, and work in flour enough to make quite brittle and hard; then pinch off pieces, and if you want them to look like baker's crackers, roll each piece separately.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household cook book (1902) by Smiley, James B[ethuel],, page 214. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 teaspoon salt, and ^ cup good yeast; let it stand over night without mixing; in the morning, mix and knead; let rise till after dinner, when knead again, roll ^ inch thick, cut out, and let rise till baked. Bake about \ hour. CRACKERS. PLAIN. — Into 2 quarts flour rub well with the hand 1 cup butter, and 1 teaspoon salt; wet with cold water

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