Baking Powder Biscuits With Mixed Peel

Baking Powder Biscuits With Mixed Peel

Ingredients

2 cups flour

3 teaspoon baking powder

½ teaspoon salt

1½ teaspoon sugar

4 tablespoons shortening

1 egg mixed with ½ cup milk

½ cup mixed peel

Method

1.                  Mix flour, baking powder, salt and shortening together.

2.                  Add in mixed peel.

3.                  Add milk and egg – mixture should be stiff.

4.                  Roll out and cut in to biscuits.

5.                  Makes 12 biscuits.

6.                  Bake at 400° for 10 minutes.

To make cheese biscuits add ½ cup grated cheese to dry ingredients.

Baking Powder Biscuits With Mixed Peel were made and prepared by Shirley-Ann Pearman

Photography by Shirley-Ann Pearman

Recipe was taken from The Bermuda Cook Book by Cecille C. Snaith-Simmons, the chapter on “Biscuits, Cookies and Candy”, page 84. 

Note:  Butter was used instead of shortening; and cream and water was used instead of milk.

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