Pineapple Buns

Ingredients

• | lb. flour
• 1 lb. sifted sugar
• 2 eggs
• £ lb. butter
• 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar
• 5 teaspoonful soda
• ½ teacupful buttermilk
• 4 02s. glacd pineapple
• 2 teaspoonfuls essence of pineapple

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter into the flour and sugar.

2. 2

   Add the pineapple chopped up roughly.

3. 3

   Beat up the eggs well, and keep a little to brush over the top of the buns with.

4. 4

   Mix the pineapple essence with the remainder of the eggs, and mix amongst the dry ingredients.

5. 5

   Then mix soda and cream of tartar with the buttermilk and mix in at the last.

6. 6

   Form into round buns with floured hands, and lay on a greased oven shelf.

7. 7

   The shelf should be greased before any of the liquid is mixed among the dry ingredients.

8. 8

   Brush over with egg.

9. 9

   Sprinkle a little fine sugar over, and bake in rather a quick oven till ready, about a quarter of an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Samaritan cookery book (1903) by E. P. Watson, page 64. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PINEAPPLE BUNS. | lb. flour 1 lb. sifted sugar 2 eggs £ lb. butter 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar 5 teaspoonful soda \ teacupful buttermilk 4 02s. glacd pineapple 2 teaspoonfuls essence of pineapple

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