COCOANUT BISCUITS
Put one cup of cocoanut through food chopper and add to sweet biscuit
dough.
SWEET BISCUITS
Three and one-quarter cups flour,
One teaspoon salt,
One-half cup sugar,
Three level tablespoons baking powder.
Sift to mix; then rub in four tablespoonfuls shortening. Break egg in
cup and fill cup with milk, turn in bowl and beat to mix. Use this for
doughing up the sweet biscuits. Work dough in bowl until smooth, turn
on lightly floured board, cut, brush tops with milk, bake in hot oven
fifteen minutes.
SCONES
Scones are delicious hot breads that are served for breakfast in the
British Isles; they replace the American pancake and for tea replace
our hot biscuits. Many varieties of scones are made in Scotland.
Currants, citron and raisins are used in the dough, while in other
parts of the United Kingdom these cakes are split, buttered and served
with marmalade or gooseberry jam.
DELICIOUS ENGLISH SCONES
Place in a mixing bowl
Four cups of sifted flour,
Two tablespoons of baking powder,
Two level tablespoons of sugar,
One-half teaspoon of salt.
Rub between the hands to thoroughly mix and then rub into the flour
five level tablespoonfuls of shortening. Now beat up an egg and then
add one-half of the beaten egg to one and one-fourth cups of milk.
Beat to mix. Use this to make a soft dough. Turn on a lightly floured
baking board and knead for three minutes. Now divide into five pieces
and mould each piece round like a saucer, and cut each way, making
four wedge-shaped pieces; place on a well-greased baking sheet and
brush with the remaining half of the egg, and bake in a hot oven for
fifteen minutes.
SCOTCH SCONES
Place in a mixing bowl
Five cups of flour,
One and one-half teaspoons salt,
Three level tablespoons baking powder,
One-half cup of sugar.
Sift to mix and then rub in
One-half cup of shortening,
And mix to a dough with
One and one-fourth cups of milk.
Now work in
One-half cup of currants,
Or
One-half cup of raisins,
One-quarter cup of finely chopped citron,
One teaspoon cinnamon,
One-half teaspoon nutmeg,
One-half teaspoon allspice.
Divide into six pieces and then roll out the size of a saucer and
about three-quarters of an inch thick. Make two cuts forming a cross,
dividing the dough into four wedge-shaped pieces. Brush with beaten
egg and bake for fifteen minutes in a hot oven. This amount wil
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