Fifty-Fifty Biscuits

Uncle Sam’s recipe, October 1917 · The Tinfully Family

Oven rather hot oven · 400–425 °F · 205–220 °Cten to twelve minutes

Ingredients

2 cups corn meal (or ground soy beans, finely ground peanuts, rice, flour, or other substitute)
2 cups white flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons salt
4 tablespoons shortening
cups liquid (milk, skim milk, or water)

Sift together the flour, meal, salt, and baking powder, twice.
Have the shortening as cold as possible and cut it into the mixture with a knife, finally rubbing it in with the hands.
Mix quickly with the cold liquid (milk, skim milk, or water), forming a fairly soft dough which can be rolled on the board.
Turn onto a floured board, roll into a sheet not over one-half inch thick, and cut into rounds.
Place these in lightly floured biscuit tins (or shallow pans) and bake ten to twelve minutes in a rather hot oven.
If peanuts are used, the roasted and shelled nuts should be finely crushed with a rolling pin.
In making the flour and peanut biscuits, the flour and other dry ingredients should be sifted together twice and then mixed thoroughly with the crushed peanuts.

(Another good recipe from Uncle Sam)

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