English biscuits recipes

Ingredients for Butterscotch Biscuits Recipe

2 cups bread flour
5 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons shortening
7/8 cup milk
1/3 cup butter, creamed
3/4 cup brown sugar

Instructions

Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt.
Using fingertips, work in shortening and milk, stirring with a knife. Roll the dough thin.
Mix the butter with the brown sugar and spread on top of the dough.
Roll up like a jelly roll, cut off pieces 1 inch thick, put in greased muffin pans cut side up, and bake 15 minutes at 400 degrees F.
This makes 16 biscuits.
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Ingredients for Tea Biscuit Recipe 1

1 cup scalded milk
1 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoons shortening
½ teaspoon salt
1 yeast cake dissolved in½ cup water
4 cups flour

Instructions
Put the sugar, salt, and shortening in a mixing bowl and add scalded milk.
When lukewarm, add dissolved yeast cake.
Slowly add 3 cups of flour, beating to a light batter and let rise to double the bulk.
Add 1 cup of flour, rise again, shape on molding board, brush with melted butter.
Cover and rise until light.
Shape into rounds and bake at 425 degrees from twenty to twenty-five minutes.

English Tea Biscuits Recipe

Ingredients for English Tea Biscuits Recipe
4 cups flour
4 level teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter or vegetable shortening
1 cup mashed potatoes
1 cup milk

Instructions
Boil and mash potatoes until they are free of lumps.
Sift the flour, salt, and baking powder.
While still warm, add potatoes and rub in vegetable shortening or butter.
Mix to a light dough with egg and milk.
Roll out a little thinner than ordinary biscuits and bake at 400 degrees until golden brown.
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