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- From: ambar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean Marie Diaz)
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- Subject: RECIPE: Biscuits supreme
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- Date: 25 Sep 87 03:10:20 GMT
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE BISCUITS-1 B "27 Mar 87" 1987
- .RZ "BISCUITS SUPREME" "Simple, fluffy biscuits"
- This originated in The Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook, which I
- consider basic equipment for genteel middle-class living. Here ``biscuits'' is
- the North American meaning of the word
- and not the Commonwealth meaning of the word. In England these would be
- called ``scones.''
- .IH "makes 10\-12"
- .IG "2 cups" "flour" "200 g"
- .IG "4 tsp" "baking powder" "20 ml"
- .IG "2 tsp" "sugar" "10 ml"
- .IG "\(12 tsp" "cream of tartar" "2.5 ml"
- .IG "\(12 tsp" "salt" "2.5 ml"
- .IG "\(12 cup" "shortening" "100 g"
- .IG "2/3 cup" "milk" "150 ml"
- .PH
- .SK 1
- Preheat oven to
- .TE 450 230 .
- Stir together the flour, baking powder, sugar, cream of tartar, and
- salt. Cut in the shortening until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- .SK 2
- Make a well in the center. Pour in the milk all at once.
- .SK 3
- Stir
- .I just
- until dough clings together;
- .B no more.
- .SK 4
- Knead gently on a lightly floured surface for 10\-12 strokes.
- .SK 5
- Roll or pat to
- .AB "\(12-inch" "1-cm"
- thickness. Cut with a
- .AB "2\(12-inch" "6-cm"
- biscuit cutter, dipping the cutter into flour before each cut.
- .SK 6
- Transfer to an ungreased baking sheet. Bake in a
- .TE 450 230
- oven for 10\-12 minutes, or until golden.
- .NX
- Lots of cookbooks tell you to use two knives, or some such, to do the
- cutting-in of the first step. Forks work fine for me (I'm a klutz.)
- .PP
- All of the trick to making light, fluffy biscuits is in how you handle
- them: the less, the
- .B better.
- You can make these as drop biscuits (skip the rolling; drop batter by
- tablespoons, and bake); they're even better for the lack of handling.
- .PP
- Outside North America you might not know what "shortening" is. Use butter,
- margarine, copha, or lard.
- Vegetable shortening really is better for this recipe, but don't
- forget lots of butter to put *on* them.... I make these for study
- breaks. They disappear at an exponential rate....
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy.
- .I Time:
- 10 minutes preparation, 10 minutes baking.
- .I Precision:
- measure the ingredients.
- .WR
- Jean Marie Diaz
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., USA
- Ambar@athena.mit.edu
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