Cornish Family Recipes: Cornish Tea Biscuits

In September, in honor of the annual Midwest Cornish Festival we are sharing Cornish recipes contributed by friends, fans and family members.

Enjoy this recipe submitted by Judy Vivian.

Note: The 2018 Cornish Fest begins September 28th In Mineral Point, Wisconsin.  This is also the release date for Puppet on a String!

I have eaten Judy’s tea biscuits and they’re good, good, good! ~ Harold Thorpe

Judy Vivian’s Cornish Tea Biscuits

Given to her by her Grandma Rule.

Ingredients

1 quart flour

1 big cup sugar

1 teas salt

3 teas baking powder- rounded

2 teas nutmeg

1 heaping cup shortening (I use butter flavored Crisco.)

1 cup raisins

2 eggs

1 cup milk

Instructions

Sift all dry ingredients together and cut in shortening with a pastry blender.

Beat eggs and milk together and add to dry ingredients. Mix and turn out on floured surface. Roll about one half inch thick and cut with 3-inch cookie cutter. Sugar tops. Bake for 20 minutes. Double batch makes 3 dozen and 1. If using doughnut cutter, bake for 15 minutes.

 

 

In the O’Shaughnessy Chronicles, descendants of southwest Wisconsin’s hard rock-mining, nineteenth century Cornish immigrants weather early twentieth century change. The third book in this series, Puppet on a String will be released Sept 28th. I’ll be signing books at the Midwest Cornish Festival.