Milk Rolls

Ingredients

• One egg
• about 1 lb. flour
• half pint of milk
• two ounces of butter
• sultanas or currants
• three ounces of sugar
• half an ounce of yeast

Method

1. 1

   Break the egg into a cup, cream the yeast with a teaspoonful of the sugar, melt the butter, and warm the milk with it; also add the egg, pour it on the yeast, and stir well together; mix in the sugar and sufficient flour to make a soft dough.

2. 2

   Let rise until very light, then shape into rolls, adding a few currants or sultanas.

3. 3

   Prove the rolls and then bake about twelve minutes in a hot oven; they should be glazed with sugar and milk or the white of an egg.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household gas cookery book (1900) by Helen Edden, page 107. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Milk Rolls. —One egg, about 1 lb. flour, half pint of milk, two ounces of butter, sultanas or currants three ounces of sugar and half an ounce of yeast

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