Name: Beaten Biscuit
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 quarts of sifted flour; 1 teaspoonful of salt; 1 tablespoonful of sweet lard; 1 egg; 1 pint of milk; 1 ball with the hand; 1 fork; 1 quick oven

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Two quarts of sifted flour, a teaspoonful of salt, a tablespoonful of sweet lard, one egg; make up with half a pint of milk, or if milk is not to be had, plain water will answer; beat well until the dough blisters and cracks; pull off a two-inch square of the dough; roll it into a ball with the hand; flatten, stick with a fork, and bake in a quick oven. It is not beating hard that makes the biscuit nice, but the regularity of the motion. Beating hard, the old cooks say, kills the dough. An old-fashioned Southern Recipe.

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Two quarts of sifted flour, a teaspoonful of salt, a tablespoonful of sweet lard, one egg; make up with half a pint of milk, or if milk is not to be had, plain water will answer; beat well until the dough blisters and cracks; pull off a two-inch square of the dough; roll it into a ball with the hand; flatten, stick with a fork, and bake in a quick oven.
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It is not beating hard that makes the biscuit nice, but the regularity of the motion.
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Beating hard, the old cooks say, _kills_ the dough. _An old-fashioned Southern Recipe._.

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