American Southern

Cold Water Biscuit

Name: Cold Water Biscuit
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 12 servings
Ingredients: 2 cups water; 1 each lard; 1.5 tsp salt

Historic recipe from Malinda Russell's 1866 cookbook "A Domestic Cook Book". Page 22. One of the earliest known cookbooks by an African American author.

15 minPrep Time

30 minCook Time

12Servings

mediumDifficulty

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Ingredients

2 cups water
1 each lard
1 1/2 tsp salt

Instructions

1
To one pint cold water, a piece of lard the size of a teacup, one and a half teaspoon salt; work it lightly in the pastry bowl, turn out on the dough board, and knead and pound until it blisters.
2
Mould into biscuit, and bake in a hot oven.

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