English Buns

Ingredients

• One and one-half cups of milk
• % cup yeast
• flour for a thick batter
• next morning add ^ cup melted butter
• % cup granulated sugar
• ^4 nutmeg grated
• % saltspoon salt
• ^ teaspoon soda
• enough flour to make it roll out as biscuit

Method

1. 1

   Knead and set to rise 5 hours.

2. 2

   Roll dough 0.5 inch thick, cut in round shape and place in a buttered pan, indent on top with a knife; let rise; bake a chestnut brown.

3. 3

   Brush over top with white of 1 egg beaten stiff with powdered sugar.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kentucky receipt book (1903) by Mary Harris Frazer, page 63. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

English Buns. One and one-half cups of milk, % cup yeast, flour for a thick batter. Set this sponge at night; next morning add ^ cup melted butter, % cup granulated sugar, ^4 nutmeg grated, % saltspoon salt, ^ teaspoon soda and enough flour to make it roll out as biscuit

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