Parker House Rolls

Ingredients

• Two pounds flour
• two heaping teaspoonfuls pure cream of tartar
• one heaping teaspoonful ARM AND HAMMER SODA (or Saleratus)
• one heaping teaspoonful salt
• two heaping teaspoonfuls sugar
• five ounces butter or lard
• one or two eggs
• one and a half pints sweet milk

Method

1. 1

   Sift flour, cream of tartar, soda, salt, and sugar together.

2. 2

   Rub in butter or lard.

3. 3

   Add eggs and milk to form a light dough.

4. 4

   Roll out to half an inch thick, cut with a round cutter, wash edges with melted butter, double over, let stand, wash with egg, and bake in a hot oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Arm & Hammer Soda book of valuable recipes (1900) by Church & Dwight Co, page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PARKER HOUSE ROLLS (MRS. J. BRAUN), Two pounds flour, two heaping teaspoonfuls pure cream of tartar, one heaping teaspoonful ARM AND HAMMER SODA (or Saleratus)’ one heaping teaspoonful salt, all sifted together three times; then add two heaping teaspoonfuls sugar. Rub into the above dry (like tea biscuit) five ounces butter or lard, which must be hard. Add one or two eggs and one and a half pints sweet milk

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