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Biscuits (Baking Powder Variant)

Source
Handwritten notebook

Page image is rotated/upside-down in the original scan and partly faint; some words below are best-effort.

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 Tbsp Baking powder
  • [illegible] tsp Baking soda
  • 3/8 cup milk
  • 1/3 cup vegetable shortening

Steps

  1. Preheat oven to 425°F [or similar — number partly illegible].
  2. Combine flour and baking powder [and other dry ingredients] in a bowl.
  3. Cut shortening into the flour mixture.
  4. Add cold milk — just enough milk — and knead 6-8 times. Pat dough out.
  5. Cut with a biscuit cutter.
  6. Place on baking sheet, touching.
  7. Bake 10-13 min. Makes about 9 biscuits.

Notes

This page is written upside-down relative to the rest of the notebook and several words are [illegible] due to image quality/rotation.

See also: Baking Powder Biscuits

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