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milk, then roll out very thin. Prick the paste well with the biscuit pricker.
Cut in diamonds, and bake them in a quick oven.
THICK WATER BISCUITS
Three pounds of flour, two and a half ounces of butter, pinch of salt, one
teaspoonful of baking powder. Mix all well together into a stiff paste with
milk. Roll out one-half an inch thick. Prick them well. Cut them with a round
cutter and bake as quickly as possible, but not in so hot an oven as the thin
biscuits.
SOUFFLE BISCUITS
Rub four ounces of butter into a quart of flour. Make it into paste with milk.
Knead it well. Roll it as thin as paper. Bake it to look white.
AUNT ANNE'S CORN-BREAD--WITHOUT
POWDER
Take a quart of corn meal, one quart of milk (you scald the milk and add it to
the corn meal), tablespoonful of fresh butter. Let it stand until it cools off a
little; then you add five well beaten eggs. Bake in a quick oven. Mix half
quantity with three eggs if you wish a smaller corn-bread.
-BALTIMORE.
AUNT ANNE'S DELICIOUS CORN-BREAD
One cupful of white corn meal, one cupful of boiled hominy, knead two eggs in
the hominy, put in a piece of butter, melted the size of a hickory nut, one
pinch of salt, one good pinch of sugar, whip all that together, add corn
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