Butter Biscuit

Origin: Hartford, Connecticut

Source: Amelia Simmons, 1796

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Lay one pint each of milk and emptins into flour, in sponge.
  2. The next morning, add one pound of butter melted, not hot.
  3. Knead into as much flour as will, with another pint of warmed milk, be of a sufficient consistence to make soft.
  4. Some melt the butter in the milk.

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