Sour Milk Biscuit
From Original White House Cookbook, 1887
Serves 3
Can also be made with sour cream without butter.
Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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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.
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
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