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B 1 Biscuits

from the Rosie’s Riveting Recipes historic cookbook

I grew up eating homemade biscuits. Biscuits and gravy was a Sunday morning breakfast staple when I was a kid. I’d wander into the kitchen, and there was Mom, or Dad, throwing some flour and shortening into a bowl, and rolling out the biscuit dough. Sometimes they’d let me cut out the biscuits with a water glass. The whole family loved fresh, homemade biscuits, and I still love biscuits today. Either smothered in gravy, or with hot, melted butter.

This historic biscuit recipe, however, is a little different than the biscuits my family baked.  These biscuits are unique and quite tasty. I would call them a cross between a biscuit and a muffin. The dough has the consistency of muffin dough, but it isn’t sweet like a muffin. I also like the subtle peanut butter flavor. It’s a nice complement to bacon and eggs, and tastes great with butter and honey.

Gayle Martin

 

B1 BISCUITS

  • 1 1/2 cups enriched all purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 cups oats
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 2 tablespoons margarine*
  • 3 tablespoons peanut butter
  • 1 cup milk

Sift and measure flour. Resift with salt and baking powder. Stir in oats and sugar. Cut in margarine and peanut butter and add milk. Mix very lightly. Fill well-greased muffin pans 1/2 full. Brush tops with milk. Bake at 450• F for 20-25 minutes. Yield: 12 biscuits.

  • butter or shortening may be used instead of margarine
About the Rosie’s Riveting Recipes Cookbook
Cover photo by Robert Resetar.

Imagine the government telling you how much meat or chicken you could buy, or how much sugar or flour you could have. Strange as it may seem, at one time it actually happened. During WWII, the United States government devised a food rationing program to help insure that every family would have enough to eat. Rosie’s Riveting Recipes gives a glimpse into life on the WWII home front. A cookbook and a history lesson in one with more than 180 economical, back-to-basics World War 2 ration recipes with short tales of life on the American home front interspersed throughout.

 

 

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