Plum Buns without Yeast, Plain

Ingredients

• two pounds of flour
• a quarter of a pound of fresh butter
• a quarter of a pound of moist sugar
• a quarter of a pound of washed and dried currants
• two eggs which have been well beaten
• a pint of lukewarm milk
• a tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda
• a tea-spoonful of tartaric acid
• half a tea-spoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Mix carbonate of soda with tartaric acid.

2. 2

   Rub this and salt into flour.

3. 3

   Work in butter, add sugar, currants, and caraway seeds if liked.

4. 4

   Make a hole in the center, pour in beaten eggs mixed with milk.

5. 5

   Stir quickly, mold into buns, place on a buttered baking-tin, and bake in a brisk oven for a quarter of an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1243. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Plum Buns without Yeast, Plain.— Mix thoroughly a tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda with a tea-spoonful of tartaric acid. Rub this and half a tea-spoonful of salt into two pounds of flour. Work in a quarter of a pound of fresh butter, and add a quarter of a pound of moist sugar, a quarter of a pound of washed and di-ied currants, and, if liked, afew caraway seeds. Make a hole in the centre of the flour, and pour into this two eggs which have been well beaten and mixed with a pint of lukewarm milk

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