Soda Scones

Ingredients

• One pound of flour
• two ounces of butter
• one ounce of sugar
• one teaspoonful of carbonate of soda
• one-half teaspoonful of cream of tartar
• three gills of butter milk
• one-half teaspoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Mix flour, salt, soda, and cream of tartar.

2. 2

   Add butter and buttermilk, knead into a dough, roll out, and bake on a girdle.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from My mother's cook book (1902) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 85. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one-half teaspoonful of cream of tartar, one-half teaspoonful of salt, three gills of butter milk. Put the flour into a bowl and mix through it the salt, place the soda and cream of tartar upon a plate, and make all smooth with the back of a teaspoon. Mix this also with the flour, pour in the butter milk and stir all thor- oughly together. Flour a mixing board, pour the batter out upon this, and adding a little flour from time to time to prevent sticking, knead the batter until it becomes a dough, stiff enough to roll out. 194 BREAD AND CAHrJSS. Cut thcidough in two pieces, and roll each piece out round, and to about half an inch in thickness. Divide each round into four pieces, place them on a heated gir- dle and bake them fifteen minutes, turning them once meantime. Serve cold with butter. Soda Scones. — One pound of flour, two ounces of butter, one ounce of sugar, one teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, one-half teaspoonfu-l of cream of tartar, three gills ,of butter milk, one-half teaspoonful of salt

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