Two pounds and a half of flour, a pint and a half of milk, half a pound
of butter, six ounces of sugar, one even teaspoonful of cardamom seeds
pounded fine, and one cake of compressed yeast. Melt the butter in the
milk, mix the sugar, flour and cardamom together and stir the butter and
milk into it with the yeast cake dissolved in a little milk, mix
thoroughly and set to rise. When it is nicely raised, roll out the dough
and cut with a biscuit-cutter, put in pans to rise again,--if they can
be raised over steam it is better. When light bake in a quick oven. If
zwieback are wanted, cut the biscuit in half when cold and set them in
the oven to brown. If wanted very nice, brush each half over with white
of egg and sprinkle with sugar and chopped almonds. The cardamom seed
may be omitted if not liked.