Breakfast Rolls

Ingredients

• 1 lb. self-rising flour
• ½ pint milk
• 1 oz. butter

Method

1. 1

   Pass the flour through a sieve, rub in the butter, moisten with cold milk till it forms a light dough, stirring with a knife.

2. 2

   Knead a little, then take off pieces and roll them.

3. 3

   Put on floured tins and bake in a quick oven for a quarter of an hour, having previously brushed over each a little milk or egg.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household gas cookery book (1900) by Helen Edden, page 112. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

pint milk or water, 2 teaspoons baking powder, or use self-rising flour. Pass the flour and baking powder through a wire sieve and mix the milk in smoothly. Divide the dough into equal parts and form little cottage loaves. They will take from ten minutes to a quarter of an hour to bake. Lower the gas every five minutes, and place them under the browning shelf. A hot oven is required. Vienna Bread. — Ingredients : 1 lb. Vienna flour, ! oz. German yeast, 1 teaspoon ful castor sugar, 1 egg, 1 oz. butter, 1 gill of tepid milk. Cream the yeast and sugar and add the milk and butter by warming the butter first in a stewpan and then adding the milk, letting it just get lukewarm, and mixing it with the yeast. Pour this into the flour, which should be passed through a sieve; beat in the egg, and having formed a dough, set it to rise for an hour and a half in a warm place, covered over with a cloth. When the dough is wrell risen, knead it well and form it into fancy twists and rolls. Place them on a floured baking sheet and let them prove in a warm place for GAS COOKERY BOOK. 205 10 or 15 minutes; then place in the gas oven under¬ neath the sheet deflector in a quick oven. Lower the gas after the first five minutes, and when the bread is nearly done, brush it over with milk and return it to the oven to finish off and glaze. Breakfast Roils. — Ingredients. — 1 lb. self-rising flour, J pint milk, 1 oz. butter

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