BAKING POWDER BISCUITS 


2 cups flour
4 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
2 Tbsp. shortening
3/4 cup milk or half milk and half water


Sift together flour, baking powder and salt; add shortening and mix in thoroughly with steel fork.  Add liquid slowly to make soft dough.  Roll or pat out with hands on floured board to about one-half inch in thickness. Cut with biscuit cutter, first dipped in flour.  Place on slightly greased pan and bake in hot oven at 475*F. ten to twelve minutes.  If a shorter biscuit is desired, use three or four tablespoons shortening. Makes 14 biscuits.

Biscuits can be baked immediately after mixing or they can be covered and set aside in a cool place for baking several hours later or even the next day.  If kept in ice box allow to stand in kitchen a few minutes before baking.








SANDWICH OR PICNIC BISCUIT 



2 cups flour
4 tsp. baking power
1/2 tsp salt
2 Tbsp. shortening
3/4 cup milk
  

Sift together flour, baking powder and salt.  Add shortening and mix in thoroughly with steel fork.  Add liquid slowly to make soft dough..Roll dough to one-fourth inch thick; cut with a small biscuit cutter.  Spread half rounds with creamed butter and thickly with chopped ham or other meat; cover with remaining rounds; press together and brush tops and sides with milk.  Bake in greased pan in hot oven at 475*F. for ten to twelve minutes.  Makes fourteen sandwiches.






 CORN BREAD 

1 cup corn meal
1 cup flour
4 tsp. baking powder
1 tbsp. sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
1 egg
1 1/2 cups milk
4 tbsp shortening, melted

Sift together corn meal, flour, baking powder, sugar and salt.  Add beaten egg and milk to make a stiff batter.  Add shortening and beat until light and thoroughly mixed.  Pour into greased shallow pan. Bake in hot oven at 425*F. about twenty-five minutes.
Makes one sheet eight inches square.





 CHEESE STRAWS 

1 cup grated American cheese
1 cup flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/16 tsp.cayenne pepper
1/4 tsp. paprika
1 egg
2 tbsp. milk

Mix together cheese, flour, baking powder, salt, cayenne pepper and paprika; add beaten egg; mix well; add milk enough to make a stiff dough.  Roll out one-eighth inch thick, on floured board; cut into strips five inches long and one-fourth inch wide.  Bake in hot oven at 450*F. ten minutes.  Makes thirty Cheese Straws.






Sorry folks.  That's it for this week.  These recipes came from a 1929 Cookbook called Anyone Can Bake.  

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