Crumpets

Ingredients

• Two cups milk
• three cups flour
• three tablespoonfuls butter
• saltspoonful salt
• half yeast-cake

Method

1. 1

   Warm the milk; beat in the salted flour, melted butter, and yeast.

2. 2

   Let this sponge stand in a warm place until light.

3. 3

   Bake in greased muffin-rings on a hot griddle or in muffin-pans in the oven, filling only half full.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from What to eat, how to serve it (1891) by Christine Terhune Herrick, page 21. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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