Baking Powder Biscuit I

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon lard
• ¾ cup milk and water in equal parts
• 1 tablespoon butter

Steps

1. Mix dry ingredients, and sift twice.
2. Work in butter and lard with tips of fingers; add gradually the liquid, mixing with knife to a soft dough. It is impossible to determine the exact amount of liquid, owing to differences in flour. Toss on a floured board, pat and roll lightly to one-half inch in thickness. Shape with a biscuit-cutter. Place on buttered pan, and bake in hot oven twelve to fifteen minutes. If baked in too slow an oven, the gas will escape before it has done its work. Many obtain better results by using bread flour.

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From The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910), now in the public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg.