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Laboratory Exercises (Baking Powder Biscuits C flour)

Baking Powder Biscuits. 2 C. flour t. salt 3 t. baking powder 2 T. shortening C. (?) milk 1. Mix and sift dry ingredients three times. 2. Cut the shortening into the dry materials with two knives. The mixture should have something the appearance of cornmeal when the shortening is well worked into the flour. 3. Add enough milk to make as soft a dough as can be handled on the board. 4. Turn dough on floured board and roll or pat till of an inch thick. 5. Cut with floured biscuit cutter and place on floured baking sheet and bake in a hot oven twelve to fifteen minutes. Cut the dough as economically as possible so as to have few pieces left to work over. Biscuit dough should be handled as little as possible.