Baking Powder Biscuit

Ingredients

• one pint of water
• one-half cup of shortening
• one teaspoonful of salt
• half lard

Directions

1. One pint of water, one-half cup of shortening (half lard and half but- ter), one teaspoonful of salt, heaping tablespoonful of baking powder. Sift your flour into the mixing pan ; mix the baking powder and salt into the center part of flour the same as if for pie crust ; mix as little flour as possible, just enough to be able to roll them nicely; scarcely knead them at all ; bake twenty minutes in a hot oven ; this recipe makes eighteen biscuits.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.