Shaker Potato The Disco Biscuits

[Barrycdog]

Old Pioneer Recipes
Shaker Potato The Disco Biscuits
1 cup mashed potatoes
2 cups flour
1 cup buttermilk...
2 tsp baking powder
1 Tblsp butter
1 Tblsp honey
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 Tblsp brown sugar
Mix ingredients and roll out on wax paper. Cut biscuits out with glass end and bake at 400 degrees until golden brown
Civil War Emporiaum

 

[donna]

Always enjoy Shaker recipes. Did the site say where these from. There were several Shaker communities. The two in Kentucky were at Pleasant Hill near Harrodsburg, Ky. and South Union. They are both historical areas well worth visiting.

 

[MRB1863]

These biscuits sound terrific! Love buttermilk biscuits! Sounds like these might be the same hearty texture> Yumm!

 

[donna]

If you really enjoy Shaker Cooking I recommend the book, "The Shaker Cook Book Not By Bread Alone" by Caroline B. Piercy. I have thread on it in Cookbook section of Food Forum.

 

[donna]

Sister Jennie's Potato Bread from "The Shaker Cook Book" page 50.

2 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup mashed potatoes
1/2 cake yeast
3 cups bread\] flour
1/2 cup butter
1 cup warm water

Beat eggs and add 1/4 cup sugar. Add salt and mashed potatoes which have been passed through a sieve. Add yeast which has been dissolved in a little warm water. Stir in enough flour to make a stiff dough. Place in a buttered bread pan and let rise for a hour. Then cream butter and the remaining sugar together. Work this into the dough and let rise very slowly for 6 hours. Then work in warm water and shape into loaf. Let rise again until very light, and bake in a quick (450 degrees) oven for 15 minutes. Lower heat to 350 degrees and bake until well browned (about 45 minutes).

"The Shaker Cook Book, Not By Bread Alone", Caroline B. Piercy, Crown Publishers, Inc. New York, 1953.