Powder Biscuit

Ingredients

• one quart of flour
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 3 teaspoons of baking powder
• 1 tablespoon of lard
• 1 pint of sweet milk

Method

1. 1

   Sift together flour, salt, and powder.

2. 2

   Work in lard as for pastry, add milk, and mix thoroughly.

3. 3

   Roll and cut about an inch thick.

4. 4

   Bake in a quick oven.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The way to the heart (1905) by Carrie Pickett Moore, page 6. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

teaspoon of salt, i teaspoon of baking powder and i cup of chopped dates. Sift into this 1^/2 cups of flour and the whites of the eggs. Bake in gem pans and serve hot. Fruit Loaf. One pound of flour, 2 ounces of lard, 2 eggs, 2 ounces of sugar, Yz pint of milk, ^ teaspoon each of ground allspice, cloves and cinnamon, ^ pound of seeded raisins, ^ pound currants, ^4 pound of blanched almonds, cut in half. Make a dough as for loaf bread, using all ingredients except the fruit. Put down to rise, and when double its size, work a second time and add the fruit. Put down to rise again, and bake in a .loaf when it has risen to twice its bulk. It takes longer than loaf bread to rise and to bake. Cinnamon Buns. Take any good loaf bread dough and, after the first rise, roll out on the biscuit board and sprinkle well with pulverized sugar and cinnamon. Spread thickly over the top a good coating of sweet butter. Now strew on this a cup of currants and another of sifted sugar and cinnamon. Roll in a lengthwise piece and cut in pieces an inch thick. Place the buns in a pan so they touch, and let them rise well a second time. When ready to bake, butter the top and dust with sugar, and bake as other bread. Powder Biscuit. One quart of flour, i teaspoon of salt, 3 teaspoons of baking powder, i tablespoon of lard, i pint of sweet milk

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