Potato biscuits^
1 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Good sized potato | |
| 1½ | cup | Flour |
| 4 | teaspoons | Baking powder |
| ½ | teaspoon | Salt |
| ¼ | cup | Shortening |
| 1 | Egg | |
| 1 | cup | Milk, about |
Directions
Boil and mash potato till it's free from lumps. Sift flour, salt and baking powder together. Add potatoes and rub in shortening. Mix to a light dough with the egg and milk, roll out a little thinner than an ordinary biscuit; bake in a hot oven (425 degrees) for 10-15 minutes till brown. Serve as soon as they are done.
Many of the recipes in this collection did not contain amounts or oven temperatures. I have typed them in as they appear in the book, typos and all.
Depression Era Recipes Patricia R. Wagner ISBN 0-934860-55-6 Entered by Carolyn Shaw 5-95
Submitted By CAROLYN SHAW On 06-26-95