Baking-Powder Biscuit
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- Ingredients
- 1 cup flour
- 2 teaspoons baking-powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ tablespoon butter
- ½ tablespoon lard or similar fat
- 6 or 7 tablespoons milk
- Utensils
- Mixing-bowl
- Sifter
- Palette-knife
- Bread-board
- Rolling-pin
- Biscuit-cutter
- Baking-pan
- Directions
1.
Sift the flour, baking-powder, and salt together into a mixing-bowl.
2.
Add the butter and lard, and with the finger-tips rub and work this shortening into the dry materials until no lumps remain.
3.
Add the milk, a little at a time, and with a palette-knife mix until all the dry materials are moistened.
4.
Sprinkle flour on the bread-board and rolling-pin, place the dough on the board and toss it about lightly until it is coated with flour.
5.
With the rolling-pin roll out the dough lightly into a sheet about ½ inch thick, dip the biscuit-cutter into the flour and cut the biscuits out from the sheet of dough. The scraps of dough left after cutting should be worked up again into a ball of dough, rolled out, and cut as before.
6.
Place the biscuits in a baking-pan, and bake in a hot oven about ten minutes, or until lightly browned.
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