Baking · Newfoundland

Tea Biscuits

Three cups of flour, three quarters of a cup of butter and a cup of raisins. Vanilla or pineapple flavouring.

A photo of scones
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Total
35 min
Prep
15 min
Cook
20 min
Oven
350°F / 175°C
Ingredients
  • 3 cups flour
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 3 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp vanilla or pineapple flavouring
  • 1 or 2 eggs
  • ¾ cup butter
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 cup raisins
Method
  1. Heat the oven to 350.
  2. Mix the flour, sugar and baking powder together.
  3. Cut in the butter until it looks like coarse crumbs.
  4. Beat the egg with the milk and the flavouring, then stir it in along with the raisins. Do not overwork it.
  5. Turn out, pat to about an inch thick and cut.
  6. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes.

Notes

Her page gives the ingredients and the bake only. The mixing method is the ordinary one for a tea biscuit.

She wrote one or two eggs. Two gives a richer biscuit.

Source: Nan's recipe book

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wolfeats.ca/recipes/tea-biscuits/