Baking-Powder Biscuit - American Recipe

Baking-Powder Biscuit

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●○○○○

🍳 Equipment: Mixing-bowl, Sifter, Palette-knife, Bread-board, Rolling-pin, Biscuit-cutter, Baking-pan

Homemade baking-powder biscuit — a 1920s kitchen staple.

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

Method

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.

Tags: milk, butter, flour · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)