Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers by Elizabeth E. Lea
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a tumbler, prick them with a fork, bake in buttered pans, with a quick
heat; split and butter before sending them to table. Dyspepsy Biscuit. Make them as Maryland biscuit, except that, instead of either lard or butter, you must use a portion of rich cream, beat or work them well, and roll them moderately thin. Salaeratus Cake. Warm a pint of butter-milk, put in it a tea-spoonful of powdered salaeratus, and a piece of lard the size of an egg; stir it into flour till it is a soft dough; roll it out, and bake it on the griddle, or in the dripping-pan of a stove. If you have no sour milk, put a table-spoonful of vinegar in sweet milk. Wafer Cakes. Rub half a pound of lard into two pounds and a half of flour, add a little salt and water sufficient to make a stiff dough: work it well for half an hour, make it in small round lumps, and roll these until they are as thin as possible; bake them with a slow heat and they will look almost white. These are nice cakes for tea either hot or cold. Short Cake. |
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