Three In One Biscuit

1 pint milk

2 tablespoons sugar 1 tablespoon butter 1 egg beaten

1 heaping teaspoon salt 1 cake compressed yeast (dissolved in warm water) Flour

Heat milk, add butter, sugar and salt. When milk is lukewarm add egg, yeast and flour enough to make good biscuit dough. Form into balls as large as a walnut. Press three of these together. Let rise two or three hours and bake.

English Tea Biscuits

4 cups flour

3 rounded teaspoons baking powder 1 heaping tablespoon crisco

1 cup seedless raisins

1/2 teaspoon salt

Milk

1 egg well beaten

Sift flour, baking powder, salt and sugar together and work in the crisco. Then add raisins, egg and milk enough to make like biscuit dough. Turn on slightly floured board, roll out until about an inch thick and cut with biscuit cutter. Bake in quick oven about fifteen minutes and rub over with butter when done. Two dozen biscuits.

Graham Biscuits

2 cups Graham flour 1 cup white flour

3 teaspoons baking powder

Butter or crisco size of an egg

Salt

Milk

Sift dry ingredients, rub in shortening, add milk enough to make soft dough, roll cut and bake.

Maple Biscuits

1 quart flour 1 teaspoon salt 4 heaping teaspoons baking powder

1/3 cup butter

Milk

Grated maple sugar

Sift flour, salt and baking powder. Work butter in with finger tips and add just enough milk to make a dough. Roll out in a rectangular shape and spread with the maple sugar. Roll the dough as for a jelly roll and cut in slices. Place these close together in well-buttered pans and bake in hot oven.

Olive Oil Biscuit

3 cups sifted flour

1 teaspoon salt

3 teaspoons baking powder

6 tablespoons olive oil Milk

Sift dry ingredients. Put oil into measuring cup, fill cup with milk, turn this into flour, then add another cup of milk. Bake in moderate oven.

Cotton Ball Biscuits

4 cups flour

2 cups milk

3 tablespoons Wesson or Primrose oil

4 rounded teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon sugar 1 teaspoon salt

Sift flour, baking powder, sugar and salt. Mix milk and oil, add to sifted ingredients. Turn out onto well floured bread board and knead gently until the dough feels smooth under hands. Pat to half an inch with rolling pin. Cut out and let stand fifteen or twenty minutes before baking. Will make three dozen small-sized biscuits.

Baking Powder Biscuit

2 cups flour

4 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon butter

1 tablespoon crisco 3/4 cup milk and water in equal parts

Mix dry ingredients and sift twice. Work in butter and crisco with tips of fingers, add gradually the liquid mixing with knife to a soft dough. Toss on board, pat and roll lightly to one-half inch in thickness. Cut and bake in hot oven fifteen minutes.

Squash Biscuits

1/2 cup scalded milk 1/4 cup butter 1/4 cup sugar 1 teaspoon salt

1/4 cake yeast (dissolved in warm water) 2 1/2 cup squash (strained) 2 1/2 cups flour

Mix in order given while milk is warm but not hot, when light mold and cut into biscuits. Let rise again and bake in moderate oven twenty minutes.