★ Granella No. 1--wheat, Corn and Oats
Ingredients
Directions
Make the dough
Mix dry ingredients.
Add water to ¾ of the quantity for a stiff dough, then work in the remaining ¼ of water until almost too stiff to knead.
Scald the granular meal with part of the water to avoid a sandy texture.
Roll and pound dough to ¼ or ⅓ inch thick.
Cut dough into round or square biscuits.
Set biscuits in a cold place for 2 hours or more.
Bake and serve
Bake biscuits in a slow oven until a rich cream color or golden brown all through.
Grind biscuits coarse or fine as desired.
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. See the original page.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Yellow granular meal
- Provides the main grain body and texture of the biscuits when scalded before mixing.
- Water
- Hydrates the dry ingredients so they form a stiff dough that can be rolled and cut.
The step that matters
Scald the granular meal with part of the water. Scalding swells the starch in the coarse meal so it softens during baking. Unscalded meal stays gritty, giving the sandy texture the step is meant to prevent.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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