French Rolls

Ingredients

• Three cups of sweet milk
• one cup of butter and lard, mixed in equal proportions
• one-half cup of good yeast
• a teaspoonful of salt
• Add flour enough to make a stiff dough
• add two well-beaten eggs

Method

1. 1

   Let the dough rise overnight.

2. 2

   In the morning, knead thoroughly and form into balls the size of eggs, then roll into long rolls.

3. 3

   Place close together on buttered pans, cover, let rise again, and bake in a quick oven until golden brown.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 161. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FRENCH ROLLS. Three cups of sweet milk, one cup of butter and lard, mixed in equal proportions, one-half cup of good yeast, or half a cake of compressed yeast, and a teaspoonful of salt. Add flour enough to make a stiff dough. Let it rise over night ; in the morning, add two well-beaten eggs

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