Scones, Soda

Ingredients

• half a salt-spoonful of carbonate of soda
• five ounces of fresh butter or lard
• a quarter of a pint of warm water or milk
• ten ounces of flour
• a pinch of salt

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve the carbonate of soda and butter or lard in warm water or milk.

2. 2

   Put flour into a bowl, add salt, and stir in the liquid to make a stiff dough.

3. 3

   Roll out into a round cake a quarter of an inch thick, mark into eight portions, and bake on a girdle or in a thick frying-pan.

4. 4

   Split the scones, butter them well, and serve very hot.

5. 5

   Time to bake: fifteen to twenty minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1739. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Scones, Soda. — Dissolve haK a salt-spoon- ful of carbonate of soda and five ounces of fresh butter or lard in a quarter of a pint of warm water or milk: put ten ounces of flour into a bowl, add a pinch of salt

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