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Twin Biscuits

Name: Twin Biscuits
Yield: 12 servings
Ingredients: 1 cup milk; ½ teaspoon salt; 2 tablespoons shortening; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 2 cups flour

From A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes, 1922.

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Ingredients

12 servings

1 cup milk
½ teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons shortening
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 cups flour

Method

Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt.
Rub the shortening into the dry ingredients using the tips of your fingers.
Stir in the milk to form a dough.
Pat and roll out the dough, cut with a biscuit cutter, brush each round with melted shortening, and place one round on top of another.
Place on a greased baking sheet and bake in a hot oven at 425 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 to 12 minutes.

Original recipe, verbatim

Twin Biscuits

1 cupful milk 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
yi teaspoonful salt 2 cupfuls flour

2 tablespoonfuls Crisco

Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together, rub in Crisco with tips of
fingers, then add milk. Pat and roll out dough, cut with cutter, brush with
melted Crisco, place one on top of another, lay on Criscoed tin and bake
in hot oven from ten to twelve minutes.

Sufficient for twelve biscuits.

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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