Exactly as printed, 1890
Take 8 lbs. of flour, rub in 2 lbs. of good butter. Make a bay, add about 1 quart of water, take in your flour and butter and well shake up, and note the more your mixture is shaken up and worked the better biscuits you will have. Also note in shaking up these biscuits, when they are mixed let your two thumbs meet, giving the mixture a shake up in the air till you have all the dry flour worked in and the mixture is nice and moist.
Bake in a smart oven on wires. 65. Soda Biscuits. 14 lbs. of flour, 1 lb. of butter, oz. of carbonate of soda, 3 drachms of muriatic acid, 2 quarts of water. Mix as the last, adding the acid mixed with half-a-pint of the water after the dough is shaken up, then finish with the machine.
CRACKERS, PICNICS, BISCUITS.
The Bread and Biscuit Baker's and Sugar-Boiler's Assistant, 1890. Public domain; transcription unaltered.