BAKING POWDER BISCUITS
MARCH 1931
Bake at 400 degrees F for 12 minutes.
Ingredients:
2 Cups of Flour
4 Tsp. Baking Powder
1 Tsp. Salt
4 Tbsp. Butter or Shortening
3/4 Cup Milk
Instructions:
Measure and sift the dry ingredients together;
work in the butter/shortening either lightly with the fingertips or by cutting it in with two spatulas or knives.
Add the milk all at once to the first mixture.
Stir rapidly for a few seconds,
turn out on a lightly floured board,
knead vigorously about half a minute.
Pat or roll to 1/2 inch or 3/4 inch.
Cut,
transfer to a baking sheet (or to the top of a casserole),
and bake at 400 degrees F for 12 minutes.
ORANGE BISCUITS
1934
Use recipe for Baking Powder Biscuits, substituting orange juice for part of the milk.
Roll out to 1/3 inch thick, cut, and transfer to baking sheet.
On top of each biscuit put a cube of sugar that has been soaked in orange juice long enough to absorb some of it but not to dissolve.
Grate orange rind over top.
Bake at 450 degrees F for about 12 minutes.
When I was thumbing through this book before I bought it....it was this recipe for ORANGE BISCUITS that sang to my tummy. So I bought this book! Haven't tried the recipe yet, but I will. It's just gotta be goooood. Can you imagine real butter melting on one of these biscuits? I can. Real Butter for real.
After my sister got married, I went over to her house for Dinner. She fixed Drop Biscuits with REAL Butter. It was the BEST! I wasn't use to real Butter. As a young girl at home, Mom used margarine to cut expense and calories. I decided that after I began my own HouseKeeping that I would use the real stuff as well. Actually real Butter is better for you....not a plastic and no chemicals. Butter it is!
BAKING ON THE PRAIRIE.
~Deanna~
