Latest Blog Posts for The Biscuit Baker

• Beaten Biscuits
  on Feb 16, 2010 in Beaten
  Beaten Biscuit #1One quart of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder sifted with the flour, a quarter of a teaspoonful of salt, a large heaping tablespoonful of butter, milk enough to make a stiff dough. Beat with a rolling pin or in a biscuit-beat...
• Soy Bean Meal Biscuit
  on Jul 24, 2009 in Baking Powder
  1 cup soy bean meal or flour1 cup whole wheat1½ teaspoons salt4 teaspoons baking powder1 tablespoon corn syrup2 tablespoons fat1 cup milkSift dry ingredients. Cut in fat. Add liquid to make soft dough. Roll one-half inch thick. Cut and bake 12 to 15...
• Potato Biscuit
  on Jul 5, 2009 in Baking Powder
  1 cup mashed lightly packed potato2 tablespoons fat1 cup whole wheat flour1 teaspoons baking powder1 teaspoon saltAbout ½ cup milk or water in which potatoes were cookedAdd melted fat to mashed potato. Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt and...
• Southern-Style Soda Biscuit
  on Jun 17, 2009 in Baking Soda
  Sift a quart of flour with a heaping teaspoonful of baking soda. Add a good pinch of salt, rub well through lard or butter the size of the fist, then wet with sour milk to a moderately soft dough, roll out, working quickly, cut with small round cutte...
• Sweet Potato Biscuits, Old Style
  on May 15, 2009 in Beaten
  Boil soft two large or four small sweet potatoes, mash smooth while very hot, free of strings and eyes, add a pinch of salt, then rub well through three cups of sifted flour. Rub in also a generous handful of shortening, then wet up soft with two egg...
• Biscuit Recipes: Old-Style Southern Beaten Biscuits
  on Apr 9, 2009 in Beaten
  Sift a quart of flour into a bowl or tray, add half a teaspoon salt, then cut small into it a teacup of very cold lard. Wet with cold water—ice water is best—into a very stiff dough. Lay on a floured block, or marble slab, and give one hundred st...
• Old-Style Southern Beaten Biscuits
  on Apr 9, 2009 in Beaten
  Sift a quart of flour into a bowl or tray, add half a teaspoon salt, then cut small into it a teacup of very cold lard. Wet with cold water—ice water is best—into a very stiff dough. Lay on a floured block, or marble slab, and give one hundred st...
• Light Biscuit No. 1
  on Mar 7, 2009 in Kneaded
  Take a piece of bread dough that will make about as many biscuits as you wish; lay it out rather flat in a bowl; break into it two eggs, half a cup of sugar, half a cup of butter; mix this thoroughly with enough flour to keep it from sticking to the...
• Biscuit Recipes: Raised Biscuit
  on Feb 22, 2009 in Yeast
  Sift two quarts of flour in a mixing-pan, make a hole in the middle of the flour, pour into this one pint of warm water or new milk, one teaspoonful of salt, half a cup of melted lard or butter, stir in a little flour, then add half a cupful of yeast...
• Raised Biscuit
  on Feb 22, 2009 in Yeast
  Sift two quarts of flour in a mixing-pan, make a hole in the middle of the flour, pour into this one pint of warm water or new milk, one teaspoonful of salt, half a cup of melted lard or butter, stir in a little flour, then add half a cupful of yeast...

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