Tea and biscuits… make your own favourite brew to drink with these biscuits – the recipes are nearly 150 years old, but I’m sure they will taste nice! I am going to try the caraway biscuits, which despite being sweet might be nice with some strong Cheddar. I wonder who Justina was?
Justina’ sends the following original recipes, and hopes they will be liked : —
Ground Rice Biscuits
- Take 1 lb. of ground rice, or, as it is sometimes called, rice flour
- … and mix with it 6 oz. of fresh butter
- … then add ½ lb. of sugar
- … beat these well up with the hand
- … then whisk two eggs –
- – with a little milk and a pinch of soda
- Add this to the ground rice, butter, and sugar –
- – and work into a paste
- Roll out, out into round cakes, and bake in a moderately quick oven.
Seed Biscuits
- Take 1 lb. of common flour
- … mix with it 6 oz. of butter and ½ lb. of sugar
- … then work in about an ounce of caraway seeds and a pinch of soda
- Beat up a couple of eggs in sufficient milk to make the above ingredients form a paste
- Roll out, cut into round cakes, and bake in a rather fast oven
Lois Elsden 