Palmer House Rolls

Ingredients

• Flour 1 quart
• pour in one-half cup of yeast
• Warm milk one-half pint
• White sugar 1 teaspoonful
• Butter 1 tablespoonful
• Salt 1 teaspoonful

Method

1. 1

   Stir it in gently with the yeast, preventing it from running over the flour.

2. 2

   Place it in a warm place, at noon mix it and knead thoroughly, add more flour if needed; let this sponge rise until an hour before you want to bake the rolls, work it over again, roll out one-half inch thick, cut into strips 4 inches wide and about 6 inches long, roll the two short sides toward each other until they meet, pinch up the ends into the usual form of rolls, rub melted butter over the top to give them a nice brown when baked.

3. 3

   Place them in the pan so they will not touch each other.

4. 4

   Allow them to stand an hour and then bake in a quick oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide (1882) by M'Millan, Alexander M. D., page 69. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Flour 2 quarts. Butter 2 table-spoonfuls. Salt I tea-spoonful. Baking powder 2 tea-spoonfuls. Baking soda i tea-spoonful. Sour milk sufficient. Sift the flour and thoroughly mix in the salt and baking powder dry. In warm weather work in the butter cold, but in cold weather melt and work in. Mash and dissolve the soda in a cup with a little of the milk, then pour it into the flour, and mix, adding more milk until the flour is all wet up. Cut out and mould, place in tins, and bake in a quick oven. GEMS. Graham meal (or flour) 2 quarts. Add salt and warm water, stirring thoroughly, make a thick batter and put into hot pans and bake in a hot oven. baker's division. 215 PALMER HOUSE ROLLS. Flour I quart. Make a well in the center heaping the flour high as possible about it, pour in one-half cup of yeast. Warm milk one-half pint. White sugar i tea-spoonful. Butter I table-spoonful. Salt I tea-spoonfu

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