Wafer Biscuits

Ingredients

• 1 lb. flour
• 1 teaspoonful salt
• 1 teaspoonful sugar
• 2 oz. butter
• 1 teacupful water

Method

1. 1

   Put the butter, salt, and sugar into a basin, pour over them the boiling water, and as soon as the butter is melted add the flour and mix to a stiff dough.

2. 2

   Beat it well with a rolling-pin.

3. 3

   Roll it very thin, cut into shapes, and bake in a quick oven.

4. 4

   The biscuits should be of a pale-brown colour.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Chambers's cookery for young housewives (1894) by Annie M. Griggs, page 74. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 teaspoonful salt. Mix the oatmeal, salt, and dripping with warm water to make a dough. Knead until smooth. Spread some oatmeal on a board, press the dough into a round cake, about half an inch thick, and then roll out thin. Divide into cakes ; bake on a hot girdle until they are firm. Take them off, rub them with meal, and toast before the fire till they curl up. SHREWSBURY CAKES. i lb. butter. i 1 lb. flour. J lb. powdered sugar. | 2 eggs. 1 teaspoonful cinnamon or 1 table-spoonful caraway seeds. Beat the butter and sugar together until they are of the consistency of thick cream. Then add the eggs well beaten, and the flour. Mix thoroughly well, and if desired add flavourings, or roll out plain to about half an inch in thick- ness. Cut into squares or any fancy shapes, place on a greased paper on a tin, and bake in a quick oven to a pale brown colour. Let cool on the tin, and then dust well with powdered sugar. I 130 GINGER CAKES — WAFER BISCUITS — PICKLES. GINGER CAKES. 2 lb. butter. i lb. sugar (powdered). 1 egg. 1 lb. flour. 1 oz. ground ginger. Milk. Mix well together the flour, sugar, ginger, and butter. Heat the egg to a froth, and add it with enough milk to form a sti fl paste. Roll very thin on a floured board, cut into shapes, and hake in slow oven. WAFER BISCUITS. 1 lb. flour. | A teaspoonful salt. 1 teaspoonful sugar. I 2 oz. butter. 1 teacupful water

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