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Biscuits III Recipe

United States

This recipe is adapted from the public domain cookbook ''Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management''.https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mrs._Beeton%27s_Book_of_Household_Management/Chapter_XLVII

Ingredients

  • 1¼ cups (175 g/6.2 oz) all-purpose flour
  • ¼ cup () caster sugar
  • 2 tablespoons butter, softened
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 2 tablespoons milk

Procedure

  1. Preheat the oven to . Grease a baking pan.
  2. Beat the egg and milk together in a bowl.
  3. Mix the other ingredients into the egg mixture to form a soft dough.
  4. Roll out the dough to and cut out into very thin biscuits with a round cookie cutter.
  5. Place the biscuits on the baking pan.
  6. Bake for 6 minutes until golden.
  7. Take the biscuits out of the oven and leave them to cool.

Adapted from Wikibooks Cookbook · Cookbook:Biscuits III, CC BY-SA 3.0.