Excellent Soda Buns

Ingredients

• half a pound of flour
• three ounces of butter
• four ounces of sugar
• an ounce, or rather more, of candied orange or lemon rind
• the slightest pinch of salt
• a small teacupful of cream, or of milk
• two egg-yolks, white 1
• less than half a teaspoonful of good carbonate of soda

Method

1. 1

   Work butter into flour until crumbly.

2. 2

   Mix with sugar, salt, candied rind, and nutmeg.

3. 3

   Pour in boiling cream or milk, mix, then add eggs (leave out one white).

4. 4

   Dust in carbonate of soda, mix well.

5. 5

   Drop onto a buttered oven-tin and bake in a moderate oven until firm and well coloured.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Modern cookery, in all its branches (1884) by Eliza Acton, page 487. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

EXCELLENT SODA BUNS. Work into half a pound of flour three ounces of butter, until it is quite in crumbs ; mix thoroughly with them four ounces of sugar, the slightest pinch of salt, an ounce, or rather more, of candied orange or lemon rind, shred extremely small, and a little grated nut- meg ; to these pour boiling a small teacupful of cream, or of milk when this cannot be had ; mix them a little, and add immediately two eggs, leaving out the white of one, and when the whole is well mingled, dust over, and beat well into it, less than half a teaspoonful of good carbonate of soda, perfectly free from lumps; rub an oven- tin with butter, drop the buns upon it with a spoon, and send them to a moderate oven. When they are firm to the touch in every part, and wrell coloured underneath, they are done. They resemble good cakes, if properly made, although in reality they are not rich : to render them so the proportion of sugar and of butter can be in- creased, and currants added also. It is immaterial, we find, whether they be put into the oven as soon as they are mixed, or an hour afterwards. They are equally light. These proportions make just a dozen of small buns. Flour, \ lb. ; butter, 3 oz. ; sugar, 4 oz. ; candied orange-rind, 1 oz. or more; grated nutmeg; cream (or milk) 1 small teacupful 5 egg-yolks 2, white 1

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