Delicate Buns for Convalescents

Ingredients

• half a pint of new milk
• one cup of hop yeast
• flour to make a batter
• half a pint of milk
• one cup of sugar
• one cup of butter
• one egg
• one nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Set the sponge at night with milk and yeast.

2. 2

   In the morning, add more milk, sugar, butter, egg, nutmeg, and flour to make it sufficiently stiff.

3. 3

   Let it rise, roll it out, cut it, let it rise again, and then bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from La cuisine creole (1885) by Lafcadio Hearn, page 94. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ELICATE BUSKS FOB CONVALESCENTS. Half a pint of new milk, and one eup of hop yeast; add flour to make a batter, and set the sponge at nîght. In the morning add half a pint of milk, one cup of sugar, one of butter, one egg, one nutmeg

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