BISCUITS
BAKING BISCUITS
Have the oven hot at first, letting it cool gradually.
BAKING POWDER BISCUITS
Sift the baking powder with the flour into the milk and the softened butter, add salt and sugar, roll to half inch in thickness, cut and bake.
Instead of milk, water may be used by adding a little more butter.
By rolling the dough very thin, cutting small biscuits, placing one on top of another to bake, very convenient biscuits for buttering for parties and luncheons can be made.
GRAHAM BISCUITS
Stir the soda dissolved in a little water into the milk, add salt, sugar, a little graham flour, the melted or softened butter, and more graham flour till the liquid has absorbed all possible. Dip a dessert spoon into cold water, then into the dough, taking enough to make a small biscuit, place in a buttered pan, repeating till dough is all used. Bake about twenty minutes.
Use same recipe for white biscuits by substituting white flour for graham, and two teaspoonfuls baking powder for soda.
MAPLE TEA BISCUITS
Into part of the flour stir half a cupful of milk, salt, then the softened butter and the balance of the flour with baking powder sifted in, and enough milk to make a soft dough. Add the maple sugar (ground by putting through the food chopper), roll about one-half inch thick, cut into biscuits and bake in a quick oven.
GRAHAM GEMS
Stir the flour gradually into the salted water. Stir very briskly for about five minutes and pour into hot gem pan. Makes 12 gems and takes about 15 minutes to bake.
MUFFINS
To the flour sifted with the baking powder, add the salt, the well beaten eggs and the milk. Drop from a dessertspoon into hot gem pans, and bake in quick oven.
Makes 12 muffins and takes about 15 minutes to bake.
POP-OVERS
To the beaten eggs add milk and salt, stir in flour, pour in hot buttered gem pans and bake about twenty minutes.
BAKED BUCKWHEAT CAKE
Into the sour milk, stir salt, soda dissolved in a little warm water and molasses; add buckwheat till the mixture is like cake dough. Bake about thirty minutes in a rather deep pan, serve in squares thick enough to cut in two and butter. This is a fine bread for winter luncheon.
JOHNNY-CAKE
To the beaten egg, add sugar, salt, corn meal and softened butter, then the milk, soda dissolved in little water, and the flour. Bake in buttered pan about twenty five minutes; makes a medium size loaf.