Baking Powder Biscuits
From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922.
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Ingredients
Method
Mix and sift dry ingredients twice.
Work in Crisco with finger tips, add cold milk gradually, mixing with a knife to a soft dough.
Toss on a floured board; pat and roll to a half-inch thickness.
Shape with a biscuit cutter.
Place on a greased tin and bake in a hot oven at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 12 minutes.
Brush the top of each biscuit lightly with melted Crisco before baking if desired.
Original recipe, verbatim
Baking Powder Biscuits
2 cupfuls flour *2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
2 tablespoonfuls Crisco 1 teaspoonful salt
Milk
Mix and sift twice dry ingredients. Work in Crisco with finger tips,
add gradually milk, mixing with knife to soft dough. Toss on floured board;
pat and roll to one-half inch thickness. Shape with biscuit cutter. Place
on Criscoed tin and bake in hot oven twelve minutes. To have good bis-
cuits dough should be handled as little as possible, just enough to get in
shape to cut. Milk or water used for mixing should be very cold, and
biscuits should be gotten into oven at once after adding liquid to flour.
If top of each biscuit is lightly brushed over with melted Crisco before
baking, crust will be much nicer. SuSicient for fifteen biscuits.
•Amount of bakine powder may be increased if especially. raised biscuits are desired. 2 teaspoonfuls, bowrrer, is most healthful amount.
Transcribed as printed in A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922. Spelling and punctuation are left as in the source scan.
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