{"id":385,"slug":"biscuits-ii","title":"Biscuits II","description":"This recipe for biscuits is adapted from the public domain cookbook A Little Book for A Little Cook.","ingredients_raw":["1 cup (140 g / 4.9 oz) all-purpose flour, plus extra for dusting","½ teaspoon salt","2 teaspoons baking powder","1 tablespoon cold butter","½ cup (125 ml / 4.2 oz) milk"],"ingredients_norm":["all purpose flour","salt","baking powder","cold butter","milk"],"steps":["Preheat the oven to 200 C.","Sift flour, salt and baking powder twice in a bowl.","Cut butter in with a knife until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.","Add milk to the mixture and mix just until you get a soft dough—don't overmix.","Place dough on a floured board. Knead the dough gently until smooth. Roll out to ½ inch (1.3 cm) thick.","Cut out biscuits with a small cutter and place biscuits onto a greased pan.","If you have scraps of dough, knead into a ball, re-roll, and cut out more biscuits.","Bake for 15 minutes until nicely browned. Transfer the biscuits to a wire rack and leave it to cool."],"categories":["Biscuit recipes","Breakfast recipes","Southern U.S. recipes","Baking recipes","Recipes using butter","Recipes using baking powder","Recipes using all-purpose flour","Recipes using cow milk"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":30,"servings":null,"yield_text":"24 biscuits","difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Biscuits_II","source_ref":"4535493","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Biscuits_II&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"e75791e435527a740be52e211e1aa431b8158a4225a3c4c4d4b6ba67f79a6b1d","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:35:15Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:31Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/biscuits-ii"}