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Egg Biscuit

Ingredients

• 1 quart of dry flour
• 3 heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• piece of butter the size of an egg
• 2 well-beaten eggs
• 1 tablespoonful of sugar
• 1 teaspoonful of salt
• 1 cup of milk, or more if needed

Instructions

Sift together dry flour and baking powder. Rub into this thoroughly butter; add eggs, sugar, salt. Mix all together quickly into a soft dough, with milk. Roll out nearly half of an inch thick. Cut into biscuits, and bake immediately in a quick oven from fifteen to twenty minutes.

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Source

The White House Cookbook (1887)

Categories

Biscuits.