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

very hot oven. =Sandwich Biscuit.=—Sift together 1 pint flour, ⅓ teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder. Rub in 1 heaping tablespoon butter. Mix to a soft dough with milk. Roll out ⅜ inch thick. Cut into rounds. On ½ of the rounds spread a little soft butter, add a thick layer of finely chopped and seasoned cold meat; cover with remaining rounds and press together. Brush tops with milk, place 1 inch apart on greased pans, and bake in hot oven. =Nut Biscuit.=—Sift together 2 cups flour, ½ teaspoon salt, 1 heaping teaspoon Royal Baking Powder. Rub in 1 heaping tablespoon butter, add 1 cup ground or very finely chopped nuts—English walnuts, hickory nuts, or almonds—and 2 tablespoons sugar; mix to a soft dough with milk. Mold with the hands into small balls, place well apart on greased pans, brush each with milk, put a pinch of chopped nuts on top, and bake in hot oven. =Diamonds.=—Prepare dough as for Royal biscuit. Knead and roll out ½ inch thick. Cut in strips 2 inches wide, then cut strips into diamonds; place on greased pans 1 inch apart, brush with milk, and bake in very hot oven. =Royal Muffins.=—Beat 3 eggs, add 1 pint milk, ½ teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon sugar, and sufficient flour to make a drop batter—about 3 cups—into which has been thoroughly sifted 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder. Beat hard for 1 minute, fill greased muffin-cups or -pans ⅔ full, bake in hot oven about 20 minutes. =Boston Muffins.=—1½ pints flour, ½ pint Indian corn meal, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 tablespoon butter, 3 eggs, and 1 pint (full measure) milk, 1 teaspoon extract cinnamon (which may be omitted without detriment). Sift together flour, corn meal, sugar, salt, and powder; rub in butter or lard; add eggs, beaten, milk, and extract cinnamon. Mix into batter a little stiffer than ordinary griddle cake batter. Have griddle heated regularly all over; grease it, lay on it muffin-rings, also greased; half fill them with batter. As soon as risen to tops of rings,