SQUASH BISCUITS (1896)
The Boston Cooking-School Cookbook By Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896)
Ingredients
• 1/2 cup squash (steamed and sifted). • 1/4 cup sugar. • 1/2 teaspoon salt. • 1/2 cup scalded milk. • 1/4 yeast cake dissolved in • 1/4 cup lukewarm water. • 1/4 cup butter. • 2 1/2 cups flour.
Directions
Add squash, sugar, salt, and butter to milk; when lukewarm, add dissolved yeast cake and flour; cover, and let rise over night.
In morning shape into biscuits, let rise and bake.
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