This section is from the book "Lessons In Cookery", by Thomas K. Chambers. Also available from Amazon: Lessons In Cookery.
Ingredients. - One gill of milk. One ounce of butter. Half a pound of flour. Teaspoonful of baking-powder.
Time required, about half an hour.
To make Milk Biscuits:
1. Put one gill of milk into a saucepan; add to it one ounce of butter, and pat it on the fire to warm.
2. Put half a pound of flour into a basin, with a tea-spoonful of baking-powder.
3. When the milk is' hot, pour it into the flour, and stir it into a smooth, stiff paste.
4. Flour a board and turn the paste on to it.
5. Flour a rolling-pin, and roll the paste into as thin a sheet as possible.
6. Flour a docker or tumbler, and cut the paste into rounds the size of a teacup.
7. Grease a tin with dripping or butter, and place the biscuits on it.
8. Put the tin into the oven (the heat should rise to 240°) to bake for twenty minutes.
9. After that, turn the biscuits off the tin and set them aside to cool.
 
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