Ingredients
2 1/2 cup all purpose flour
1 tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp coarse cracked black pepper
1/2 tsp baking soda
3/4 cup shortening
1 cup buttermilk
Directions
Preheat oven to 450-500F. Sift 2 cups of the flour with the baking
powder, salt, pepper, and baking soda into a bowl. Cut in the
shortening with a pastry blender or fork, or work it in with your
fingers. Add the buttermilk to make a soft dough, mixing just until
the dough holds together. Flour your hands. Pull of a piece of dough
the size of a biscuit and dip the wet edge into the extra flour. The
roll or pat into a biscuit. Place slightly touching, on a lightly
greased baking sheet. Bake until golden golden brown.
8-10 minutes. From Nathalie Dupree's "New Southern Cooking"
Servings: 12 servings
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Categories: Bread; Breads
The History of Recipes
Historians have tracked the existance of recipes far back into distant history, in truth as far back into recorded history as the ancient Egyptians, and possibly even further. Having said that, mostly, these ancient cookbooks were just primitive pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform instructions for food preparation.
Fascinatingly, the most ancient recipe in existence, according to experts in ancient history is a series of clay tablets in Sumerian which recount the making of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as making people feel wonderful. As our culinary historical trip moves on a few more years we find a couple of interesting cookery books which date from the 1300s ; a book called `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary titled `Curye on Inglish`. Don`t be fooled by the titles though, these are not about the curry that is served today, but rather descriptions of the types of meals on the tables of the rich people of those days. Over the following few hundred years, the powerful and rich tried to serve the most exotic banquets, and as a consequence, cooks and their recipe collections increased in prestige. Notwithstanding that, it wasn`t until the nineteenth century that cooking and cookery books really came of age. The Famous Mrs Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Merritt Farmer in the USA, spent years to collecting, trying out, and recording recipes to allow everyone to enjoy them. By the arrival of the 20th century, cookbooks are increasing in popularity mostly due to more people being able to read, more free time and a general increase in wealth. |
We hope you enjoy this Pepper Biscuits recipe.
