Soda Biscuit

Ingredients

• one quart of flour
• one table-spoonful of lard
• one-half tea-spoonful of salt
• one-half pint of buttermilk
• one-half tea-spoonful of soda

Method

1. 1

   Mix this with the flour and bake quickly.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 72. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one table-spoonful of lard, two heaping tea-spoonfuls of baking-powder well mixed in the flour, a little salt, a little over half a pint of sweet milk or enough to make a stiff batter. Drop into greased pans, and bake quickly. Mrs. Peale, Carlisle, Ky. EXCELLENT BISCUIT. Sift one quart of flour with two tea-spoonfuls of baking- powder, butter the size of a walnut, one-half tea-spoonful of salt. Stir one-half tea-spoonful of soda into one pint of sour cream. Mix and bake as quickly as possible. Mrs. John W. Power. The New Kentucky Home Cook Book. 143 BAKING-POWDER BISCUIT. Take one quart of sifted flour, put iuto it three tea-spoon- fuls of baking-powder also sifted. Mix thoroughly. Rub into this a piece of shortening (half lard and half butter ) about the size of a large egg, a little salt, and one pint of sweet milk. Sprinkle the board to prevent sticking. Bake immediately in a hot oven. Mrs. Laura C. Dimmitt. COFFEE BREAD. Take one quart of flour, one egg not beaten, one cupful of sugar, a lump of butter the size of an egg. Mix with sweet milk to a soft dough (nearly one pint), two tea-spoon- fuls of baking-powder. Divide into three quantities and put into jelly-pans. Score deeply; pour over this one cup- ful of melted butter; then mix one cupful of sugar and one paper of ground cinnamon together, and sprinkle over this. Bake. Mrs. G. T. Hunter. FEDERAL BREAD. Take three eggs, one table-spoonful of butter, one table- spoonful of lard, two tea-spoonfuls of cream of tartar, one tea-spoonful of soda, one quart of flour, sufficient buttermilk to wet it, two table-spoonfuls of sugar. Let it rise like light bread. Bake. ^Rs. D. B. Lacy, Owixgsville, Ky. SODA BISCUIT. Take one quart of flour, into which' mix one table-spoon- ful of lard and one-half tea-spoonful of salt. Then stir into one-half pint of buttermilk one-half tea-spoonful of soda

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