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A second Dudley book of cookery and other recipes

1914

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Presented as published in 1914. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Mix with cream ; beat well and bake on hot tins. 1 ZWIEBACK GERMAN RUSKS mWO pounds of Vienna flour, three-quarters of an ounce of German yeast, half a pint of milk, half a pint of water, three ounces of castor sugar and a pinch of saltAnother Recipe for Water Biscuits. Sift the flour into a pan and add the salt and rub in a little lard ; make a well in the centre, in it mix the yeast with a little tepid water and very little flour ; melt the butter and work it into the dough. Divide the dough into half-pounds and shape into large rolls. Place them close together on a floured baking sheet when proved ; bake them from forty to forty-five minutes and glaze with sweetened milk. This is called “ milk-bread.” When it is one or twro days old, it should be cut up into even-sized slices, placed on wire trays and dried in the oven till quite crisp. They are then called rusks or zwieback. 374 TEA CAKES, ETC. RUSKS ONE pound of flour, two ounces of sugar, two ounces of butter, half a pint of milk, half an ounce of yeast and the yolk of an egg. Rub the butter into the flour mixed with the sugar ; dissolve the yeast in a little warm milk ; warm the half-pint of milk and add the yolk of egg, and mix with the yeast, and set to rise in a warm place, and then put in tins to rise again and bake in a quick oven. FINGER-SHAPED BREAKFAST ROLLS SIFT one pound of flour and rub into it two ounces of butter. Mix in the whites of three eggs beaten to a froth, and a teaspoonful of strong yeast. Add enough milk (with a little salt) to make a stiff doughFinger-Shaped Breakfast Rolls, and set it, covered, before the fire to rise, which will take about an hour. Cut into long, narrow strips and put into a quick oven. They will be done in about ten or twelve minutes. Brush over with yolk of egg. 1 375 THE DUDLEY RECIPES FRENCH ROLLS 1 1 1VKE a quarter of a peck of flour and rub into it a quarter of a pound of butter. Put in a little salt. Then take a pint of milk and half a pint of good ale yeastFrench Rolls, and mix in the same way as other bread. Lay it to rise before the fire for half an hour, covered with a cloth. Make it into rolls, then prick and salt them, and place before the fire again for half an hour. Put in a quick oven for half an hour more. Before serving, rasp them. '« FRENCH TEA BISCUITS f I TWELVE ounces of sifted flour, the yolks of J- three eggs, six ounces of castor sugar, six ounces of butter, orange-flower water, granulated sugar, shredded almonds or pistachios and royal icing. Put the flour on to a board ; make a well in the centre ; put in the yolks of the eggs,French Tea Biscuits sugar and butter, and work into a smooth paste by means of a few drops of milk and orange-flower water. The paste, when finished, should be, in appearance and consistency, the same as short-crust paste. Roll out about a quarter of an inch thick and stamp 376 TEA CAKES, ETC. out some rounds or ovals, according to taste and fancy. Place these on a greased baking tin. Spread each with a thin layer of icing to which a little orange-flower water has been added ; strew over with chopped pistachio nuts or almonds and bake in a moderate oven for about twenty minutes. As they come out of the oven, brush over with liquid icing, which will set as the biscuits get cool 377 42 HOUSEKEEPER, ETC., AND MISCELLANEOUS 379 A CHEERFUL WOMAN She was a soft landscape of mild earth ,