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The 1918 Fanny Farmer Cookbook
Mix dry ingredients, and sift twice.
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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
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too slow an oven, the gas will escape before it has done its work.
Baking Powder Biscuit II
2
5
cups bread flour
2
tablespoons
butter
teaspoons baking
powder
1
cup milk
1
/2 teaspoon salt
Mix and bake as Baking Powder Biscuit I.
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Emergency Biscuit
Use recipe for Baking Powder Biscuit I or II, with the addition of more milk, that mixture
may
inch
be dropped from spoon without spreading. Drop by spoonfuls on a buttered pan, one−half
apart. Brush over with milk, and bake in hot oven eight minutes.
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Fruit Rolls (Pin Wheel Biscuit)
2
5
cup flour
2
/3 cup milk
teaspoons
baking powder
/3 cup stoned raisins
finely chopped)
1
(
1
2
/2 teaspoon salt
tablespoons
sugar
2
tablespoons citron
finely chopped)
tablespoons
(
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