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POTATO BISCUIT.
Boil six good-sized potatoes with their jackets on; take them out with a
skimmer, drain and squeeze with a towel to ensure being dry; then remove the
skin, mash them perfectly free from lumps, add a tablespoonful of butter, one
egg, and a pint of sweet milk. When cool, beat in half a cup of yeast. Put in
just enough flour to make a stiff dough. When this rises, make into small cakes.
Let them rise the same as biscuit and bake a delicate brown.
This dough is very fine, dropped into meat soups for pot-pie.
VINEGAR BISCUITS.
Take two quarts of flour, one large tablespoonful of lard or butter, one
tablespoonful and a half of vinegar and one teaspoonful of soda; put the soda in
the vinegar and stir it well; stir in the flour; beat two eggs very light and
add to it; make a dough with warm water stiff enough to roll out, and cut with a
biscuit-cutter one inch thick, and bake in a quick oven.
GRAFTON MILK BISCUITS.
Boil and mash two white potatoes; add two teaspoonfuls of brown sugar; pour
boiling water over these, enough to soften them. When tepid, add one small
teacupful of yeast; when light, warm three ounces of butter in one pint of milk,
a little salt, a third of a teaspoonful of soda, and flour enough to make stiff
sponge; when risen, work it on the board; put it back in the tray to rise again;
when risen, roll into cakes, and let them stand half an hour. Bake in a quick
oven. These biscuits are fine.
SALLY LUNN.
Warm one-half cupful of butter in a pint of milk; add a teaspoonful of salt, a
tablespoonful of sugar, and seven cupfuls of sifted flour; beat thoroughly, and
when the mixture is blood warm, add four beaten eggs, and last of all, half a
cup of good lively yeast. Beat hard until the batter breaks in blisters. Set it
to rise over night. In the morning, dissolve half a teaspoonful of soda, stir it
into the batter and turn it into a well-buttered, shallow dish to rise again
about fifteen or twenty minutes. Bake about fifteen to twenty minutes.
The cake should be torn apart, not cut; cutting with a knife makes warm bread
heavy. Bake a light brown. This cake is frequently seen on Southern tables.
SALLY LUNN. (Unfermented.)
Rub a piece of butter as large as an egg into a quart of flour; add a tumbler of
milk, two eggs, three tablespoonfuls of sugar, three teaspoonfuls of baking
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