Ingredients
2 cup unbleached flour
3 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/4 cup shortening
3/4 cup beer
Directions
Preheat Oven to 450 degrees F. Sift dry ingredients together. Cut in
shortening until it has cornmeal consistanch. Stir in beer, knead
lightly, roll out to 1/2-inch thickness. Bake 10 - 12 minutes or
until golden brown. Makes 12 to 15 biscuits.
Servings: 4 servings
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Categories: Beer; Bread; Breads
The History of Recipes
It is quite possible to prove the history of written cooking instructions back into the far past, in fact as far back into recorded history as the Egypt of the Pharoahs, and possibly even further than that. Interesting though that maybe, generally, these early cookbooks were just very simple hieroglyphic or cunieform instructions for preparing food.
Fascinatingly, the most ancient recipe discovered so far, according to experts in ancient history is a collection of tablets in Sumerian which describe the baking of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as making anyone who tried it feel wonderful. As our culinary historical trip moves to more modern times we find some books from the fourteenth century - a book entitled `Forme of Cury`, and another titled `Curye on Inglish`. The titles are a little misleading though, these two books have no connection with the spicy food that appears on menues today, but instead descriptions of the types of food prepared by the chefs of the nobility of that period. Over the following few centuries, the families of Europe strove to serve up the best banquets, and because of this the best chefs and their recipes increased in prestige. Notwithstanding that, it was during the 19th century that fine cooking and recipe publications became popular. Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Farmer in the USA, spent years to collecting, testing, and publishing recipes to help cooks of their time. The arrival of TV gave us TV chefs and the spin-off recipe books. Which pretty much brings us to the present day and the internet revolution, permitting everyone to access massive numbers of recipes like the ones you can find on this site. |
We hope you enjoy this Beer Biscuits recipe.
