Bath Buns

Ingredients

• One pound and a half of flour
• six ounces of butter
• four ounces of sugar
• four eggs
• half an ounce of caraway seeds
• one ounce and a half of candied citron
• half an ounce of German yeast
• half a pint of milk

Method

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   Rub the butter in the flour, adding a little salt; mix the milk, warm, with the yeast; strain, and pour it into the middle of the flour; cover, and set it before the fire to rise; when sufficiently risen, add the sugar, the caraway seeds, picked and washed, the eggs, well beaten, and the citron, cut in thin slices; make up the buns; lay them on baking-tins; let them rise about a quarter of an hour; bake in a quick oven; when done, brush them over with beaten egg, and sift sugar on them.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Vegetarian cookery (1891) by Martha Brotherton, page 121. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Bath Buns. One pound and a half of flour, six ounces of butter, four ounces of sugar, four eggs, half an ounce of caraway seeds, one ounce and a half of candied citron, half an ounce of German yeast, and half a pint of milk

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