Raised Biscuit

Ingredients

• two quarts of flour
• one pint of warm water or new milk
• one teaspoonful of salt
• half a cup of melted lard or butter
• half a cupful of yeast

Method

1. 1

   Make a hole in the flour, add warm water or milk, salt, melted lard or butter, and yeast.

2. 2

   Stir in flour, let rise overnight, add soda and more flour, mold, let rise again, roll out, cut, and bake.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 5 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 159. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

raised biscuits for breakfast in one hour’s time. Stale rolls may be made light and flakey by dipping for a moment in cold water, and placing immediately in a very hot oven to be made crisp and hot. SODA BISCTTIT. One quart of sifted flour, one teaspoonful of soda, two teaspoonfnls of cream of tartar, one teaspoonful of salt ; mix thoroughly, and rub m two fcablespoonfuls of butter and wet with one pint of sweet milk. Bake in a quick oven. BREAD— BISCUITS, ROLLS, MUFFIN'S, ETC. • 239 BAKHsTG POWDER BISCUIT. Two PINTS of flour, butter the size of an egg, three heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder and one teaspoonful of salt ; make a soft dough of sweet milk or water, knead as little as possible, cut out with the usual biscuit- cutter and bake in rather a quick oven. SOUR MILK BISCUIT. Eub into a quart of sifted flour a piece of butter the size of an egg, one teaspoonful of salt ; stir into this a pint of sour milk, dissolve one tea- spoonful of soda and stir into the milk just as you add it to the flour ; knead it up quickly, roll it out nearly half an inch thick and cut out with a biscuit-cutter ; bake immediately in a quick oven. Very nice biscuit may be made with sour cream without the butter by the same process. RAISED BISCUIT. Sift two quarts of flour in a mixing-pan, make a hole in the middle of the flour, pour into this one pint of warm water or new milk, one tea- spoonful of salt, half a cup of melted lard or butter, stir in a little flour, then add half a cupful of yeast

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