Raised Tea Biscuit

Ingredients

• One and one-half pints of flour
• one-half cup of yeast
• one-half cup of warm water
• one-quarter pint of sweet milk
• one-half cup of lard and butter mixed
• one egg
• one-half teaspoonful of salt
• one teaspoonful of sugar

Method

1. 1

   Set the mixture at eight o'clock in the morning with half of the flour.

2. 2

   Make it up at one o'clock with the rest of the flour.

3. 3

   Put in pans at three o'clock and bake at six.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The complete cook book (1900) by Rees, Jennie Day Mrs., page 95. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

RAISED TEA BISCUIT. One and one-half pints of flour, measured before sift- ing, one-half cup of yeast or one-half cake of com- pressed yeast, melted in one-half cup of warm water j one-quarter pint of sweet milk, one-half cup of lard and butter mixed, one egg, one-half teaspoonful of salt and one teaspoonful of sugar

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.