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Buttermilk Biscuit

A historic Canadian dish of sour milk, soda, soft lard and flour to make dough. Adapted from Buttermilk Biscuit, from The Canadian Family Cook Book (1914).

Adapted from Buttermilk Biscuit, in The Canadian Family Cook Book (1914), preserved in the Open Recipe Archive's The Canadian Kitchen collection and marked public domain. The method is condensed from the original and the quantities are restated in modern units; see the archive record at https://github.com/AdamBouhmad/open-recipe-archive/blob/main/collections/canadian-kitchen/recipes/buttermilk-biscuit.md.

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Buttermilk Biscuit

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Cooking Instructions

  1. Take buttermilk and stir in it a rounding teaspoonful of baking soda

  2. Pour into the flour bowl where there has been made a hole in the middle of the flour

  3. Add salt and lard

  4. Mix with the fingers into a soft dough

  5. Do not get in too much flour — it must be quite soft

  6. Roll out one inch thick and cut

  7. Place not too close together on a tin and bake in a very hot oven

Adapted from Open Recipe Archive · The Canadian Family Cook Book (1914; archive record marked public domain). View a published recipe at Internet Archive (opens in a new tab)