London Buns

Ingredients

• 1 lb. Flour
• 1 lb. Butter
• £ lb. Sugar
• Butter Milk
• Essence of Lemon
• Lump Sugar
• Baking Powder
• lb. Orange Peel
• 3 Eggs

Method

1. 1

   Put the flour into a basin with the sugar and 1.5 teaspoons of baking powder, and mix together.

2. 2

   Add the butter, crumble it down till the mixture resembles bread-crumbs; add the orange peel cut into small pieces.

3. 3

   Beat up three eggs and add them to the mixture, keeping back about a tablespoonful, and mix well.

4. 4

   Add a little butter milk to wet the ingredients, as the paste must be very stiff.

5. 5

   Grease a flat tin, roll pieces of the paste into balls, place them on the tin, brush the tops with the reserved egg, and put pieces of lump sugar on top.

6. 6

   Bake in a smart oven for about 15 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Household cookery and laundry work (1882) by Black Mrs, page 43. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

LONDON BUNS. 1 lb. Flour. 1 lb. Butter. | lb. Sugar. Butter Milk. Essence of Lemon. Lump Sugar. Baking Powder. lb. Orange Peel. 3 Eggs. Put the flour into a basin with the sugar and 1^- tea- spoonfuls of baking powder, and mix all together. Add the butter, and crumble it down till the whole is like bread-crumbs ; also add the orange peel cut in dices about the size of a pea. Beat up three eggs in a basin, and add them to the other ingredients, keeping back about a table-spoonful, and mix well. Now add a little butter milk, but only enough to wet the ingredients in the basin, as the paste must be very stiff ; use a spoon and stir till thoroughly mixed and wet. Grease a flat tin and take a piece of the paste, about the size of an egg; roll it round like a ball and place it on the tin, and repeat till all the paste is used up. Use a little flour to keep the hands from sticking. Keep the buns two inches apart, and brush the tops over with the egg kept back for this purpose, and put a few pieces of lump sugar, broken in small pieces, on the top of each. Bake in a smart oven for about 15 minutes, till they are a nice brown colour, and sufficiently cooked. $ lb. Butter. Put all on a table and knead the butter and sugar together, then gradually draw in the flour, kneading well and keeping the lump firm in both hands. When all is worked up into a stiff paste, cut it in two or three SHORTBREAD. 7 oz. Flour. 1 oz. Rice Flour. 1 lb. Sugar.

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