Buns

Ingredients

• 1 lb. of flour
• 3 oz. butter
• 0.5 lb. sugar
• 2 eggs
• 3 half gills of milk
• 1 gill of home-made yeast
• 1 tablespoonful of rose-water
• 2 teaspoonfuls of powdered cinnamon

Method

1. 1

   Warm butter in milk; beat eggs; mix with milk and butter, pour into flour; add rose-water, cinnamon, and yeast.

2. 2

   Knead well, let rise, shape into cakes, place in buttered pans, let rise again, and bake.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 12 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Ideal cook book (1899) by Anne Clarke, page 84. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Buns—Ingredients—1 Ib. of flour, 3 of a Ib. of sugar, 4 Ib. of butter, 4 eggs, 1 gill of yeast, 1 teaspoonful of cinnamon, % teaspoonful of nutmeg, 4 pt. of milk, 2 tablespoonfuls of rose water. Cut up the butter, and rub it well with the flour, add the sugar, beat the eggs very light, and stir in lastly the spices and rose-water, with milk enough to form a very thick batter, then add the yeast. The next morning stir it again, and let it rise the second time. Butter your pans, and fill them three parts full. When they are done and cold, sift sugar over, and with a sharp knife cut them in squares. 152 ‘THE Dominion Cook Book. 495. Buns—Ingredients—1 lb. of flour, 3 oz. butter, % Ib. sugar, 2 eggs, 3 half gills of milk, 1 gill of home-made yeast, 1 tablespoonful of rose-water, 2 teaspoonfuls of powdered cinnamon

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