The royal baker and pastry cook : $b A manual of practical cookery

Bake in a very hot oven. Hot Biscuits, Cakes, and Muffins Experienced housekeepers agree that breakfast is difficult to cater for. Even the appetite ordinarily easy to satisfy is likely to be captious when approaching the first meal of the day. Every article of food upon the breakfast-table, therefore, should be perfect—the coffee as clear as amber, the bacon white and crisp, the biscuits flaky, tender, delicious. As a nation we approve of hot-breads, and most of all at the breakfast-table. And while we eat and enjoy them, we have the satisfaction of knowing that American methods and American cookery have made them healthful as well as appetizing and nutritious. And of all the breakfast foods, nothing is so appetizing, so appetite-whetting, so always dependable, so satisfying, as the light, flaky, hot biscuit, with a crisp, brown crust, just from the oven, broken apart without use of knife, and spread with butter; or, to top off the meal, with honey, jam, or marmalade. The very simplicity of the methods of making and the familiar, every-day use of this little hot bread-morsel have, however, sometimes led to lack of care in its preparation, so that we too seldom find it in perfection upon our tables. It is the object of this chapter to stimulate an interest in and awaken a love for this most healthful and economical of our purely American foods, so that it will be found, as it deserves to be, a prominent part of every day’s food in every household. With a basis of flour, salt, and Royal Baking Powder, we can add other ingredients to vary and enrich the cakes and biscuits generally known to the housewife, and produce in almost endless variety breakfast and luncheon foods that shall be dainty and delicious or substantial and hearty. Are eggs scarce and high, does too much shortening disagree with some member of the family, Royal Baking Powder permits the lessening of both or either of these ingredients, without impairing the delicacy or digestibility of the finished biscuit. Royal Baking Powder is pure and healthful, and its use in