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BAKING POWDER BISCUITS

Ingredients
2 cups f lour

3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoon buter
2/3 cup milk

Instructions
Mix dry ingredients together and cut butter into the mixture and stir the batter till it
is the consistency of corn meal. Add milk while mixing the mixture with a fork until

it makes a soft dough that can be easily handled. Turn onto a f loured board and
knead lightly for about 20 seconds. Roll out to about a 1/2 inch to an inch thick. Have
a circle cutter f loured or a f loured glass and cut into circles and put on greased
cookie sheet. Place about 1 inch apart if you like a crusty biscuit or place closer for
softer edges.

Bake in hot oven at 450 degrees for 12-15 minutes. Serve warm.
Makes 19 two inch biscuits that are a half inch thick. For a richer biscuits add 6
tablespoon butter instead of the f lour.

This recipe is from Mom Hubler (Herta)’s Good Housekeeping cookbook 1942 edition.

LYDIA’S CHALLAH BREAD

Ingredients
3 packages yeast 1/2 cup warm water
1/2 cup honey 8 or 9 cups f lour

1 ½ teaspoon salt 5 or 6 eggs
1/2 cups oil and 1/4 cup melted Crisco 2/3 cups warm water or milk

Instructions
Mix yeast with 1/2 cup warm water, 1 tbsp sugar, 2 tbsp f lour& let rise in warm place.

Mix f lour, salt, honey, oils, eggs, yeast mixture and the warm milk. Mix well, turn
onto f loured board & knead well. Punch down & let rise 2 or 3 times. Divide into 3
pieces. Divide again into 3 pieces & braid. Let rise in pan. Brush with beaten egg

yoke, sprinkle with poppy seeds. Bake at 400 degrees & bake until done about 35-40
minutes.

Lydia Klatsky (Vitale) is my husband, Ron’s mother’s cousin. She is Virginia (Vitale)
Mazzola’s brother, Santo Vitale’s daughter.

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