This section is from the book "Ossoli Club Cook Book", by Ossoli Club . Also available from Amazon: How to Cook Everything.
(Mrs. H. B. Koberts.)
1 cup flour, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 2 level teaspoons baking powder, 1 tablespoon butter little more than level, 6 tablespoons sweet milk (more or less).
(Mrs. R. J. Beatty.)
Into 1 quart of flour put 2 teaspoons of Royal baking powder and 2 tablespoons of salt. Mix thoroughly with cold water pat out into a cake on the board, cut out with a small cutter and place separately in the pan. Bake very well.
Ingredients: 1 lb. bread dough; 1/2 lb. currants; 1/4 lb. pulverized sugar; 2 eggs; 1 tablespoonful butter. Mode: Beat sugar and eggs together; mix other ingredients together, and add to them the eggs and sugar; make into small buns, put them to raise, and bake 20 minutes in moderate oven.
(Mrs. G. H. Campbell.)
1 pint sweet milk; piece of butter size of egg; tablespoon-ful of sugar; pinch of salt; heat up in double boiler, when cool add 1/2 yeast cake; mix in flour enough to make a dough; chop with chopping knife 20 minutes; let rise in a warm place; chop again for 10 minutes; let rise till light; make in small cakes; turn in with butter between; bake 20 minutes.
1 quart sifted flour; 1 teaspoonful salt; 1 teaspoon-ful baking powder, sift both with flour; 1 large tablespoonful lard; mix all well; handle as little as possible; roll and cut; cook in very hot, quick oven.
(Mrs. E. B. Pierce.)
Fill a quart sifter full of flour; add a teaspoon of salt; after sifting, rub in a large kitchen spoon of lard through the flour; mix a 1/2 pint of sweet milk with 1/2 ice pint of water; add gradually to flour to make a stiff dough, be careful and don't use too much liquid, some flour takes more than others, and the stiffer the dough the better you can work it and the more worked the better they will be. If you haven't a regular biscuit worker, beat with rolling pin until the dough shortens; roll out about 1/2 an inch thick, cut out and stick with fork; bake in a moderate oven for 1/2 hour.
(Mrs. E. A. Bourinque.)
1 quart of new flour, unbolted or Graham flour; 2 tablespoons lard or butter; 1 cup of buttermilk, with one teaspoon soda; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 2 teaspoons brown sugar; make this into soft dough, work little, roll out, and cut into biscuits and bake in a quick oven.
 
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