Quick Biscuits

Ingredients

• 1 Tablespoonful Snowdrift
• 1 Quart Flour
• 4 Teaspoonfuls Baking Powder
• i H Cupf uls Milk
• 1 Teaspoonful Salt

Method

1. 1

   Add the salt and the baking powder to the flour and sift.

2. 2

   Rub in quickly the Snowdrift, add gradually the milk.

3. 3

   The dough must be moist but not wet.

4. 4

   Roll into a sheet a half inch thick, cut into biscuits, place in a greased pan so that they cannot touch each other; brush the tops with milk and bake in a quick oven.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Snowdrift secrets (1913) by Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer, page 13. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

QUICK BISCUITS 1 Tablespoonf ul Snowdrift Add the salt and the baking powder to 1 Quart Flour 4 Teaspoonfuls Baking Powder i H Cupf uls Milk 1 Teaspoonful Salt the flour and sift. Rub in quickly the Snowdrift, add gradually the milk. The dough must be moist but not wet. Roll into a sheet a half inch thick, cut into biscuits, place in a greased pan so that they cannot touch each other; brush the tops with milk and bake in a quick oven. SOUR MILK BISCUITS 1 Quart Flour 2 Tablespoonfuls Snowdrift 1 Teaspoonful Bicarbon- ate of Soda 4 Cupf uls Thick Sour Milk or Buttermilk 1 Teaspoonful Salt Rub the Snowdrift into the flour and add the salt. Dissolve the soda in a table- spoonful of water, add it to the sour milk and stir this into the flour. Do not add it all if it makes the mixture too wet. Knead quickly, roll out on a baking board, cut into biscuits and bake in a quick oven twenty minutes. SNOWDRIFT makes delicious BISCUIT 30 ENGLISH MUFFINS 1 Pint Milk Scald the milk, add the Snowdrift and 2 Tablespoonfuls Snowdrift salt and when lukewarm add the yeast, Pints Flour 1 Yeast Cake 1 Teaspoonful Salt moistened, and the flour. Beat thor- oughly, cover and stand in a warm place three and a half hours. Put spoonfuls of this mixture into greased muffin rings on a greased griddle. When baked slightly on one side, turn with a cake turner, ring and all, and bake carefully on the other side. TOASTED MUFFINS English Muffins are best toasted. Pull them apart ; do not cut them. Toast the pulled side down over a clear fire. Butter and serve. MUFFINS ^ Cupfuls Flour 1 Tablespoonful Snowdrift

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