Old Fashion Rusks

Ingredients

• two cups of scalded milk
• a teaspoon of salt
• yeast
• flour to make a dough
• half a cup of butter
• two cups of milk
• one cup of sugar
• three beaten eggs

Method

1. 1

   Make a sponge with milk, salt, yeast, and flour.

2. 2

   In the morning, heat butter in milk, add to sponge, sugar, and eggs.

3. 3

   Add flour to make a kneadable dough, let rise, roll out, cut into round cakes, let rise, and bake until deep yellow.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Good Things to Eat as Suggested by Rufus (1911) by Rufus Estes, page 52. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

OLD FASHION RUSKS— At night make a sponge as for bread with two cups of scalded milk, a teaspoon of salt, yeast and flour. In the morning put half a cup of butter into two cups of milk and heat until the butter is barely melted, add this to the sponge, one cup of sugar and three beaten eggs. Add flour to make a dough

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.