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Fletcher’s Digestive Biscuits

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Fletcher’s Digestive Biscuits

Oven, in the book's wordsA cool oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a cool oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

  1. Mix 128 grains of pepsine with 16 ounces of biscuit dough or paste.

  2. Form the mixture into biscuits, each weighing one-eighth of an ounce.

  3. Bake the biscuits in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) without exceeding the temperature that would impair the digestive ferments.

  4. Alternatively, take already baked biscuits and add pepsine mixed with sugar, gum, or egg white, then dry if necessary.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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