Quick Sticks

Ingredients

• Four cupfuls of flour
• one tablespoonful of sugar
• one-fourth of a cupful of butter
• one cupful of boiled milk
• the white of an egg
• one-fourth of a cake of compressed yeast
• one scant teaspoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Dissolve the butter in the milk, which should be blood warm.

2. 2

   Beat the white of the egg to a stiff froth.

3. 3

   Dissolve the yeast in three tablespoonfuls of cold water.

4. 4

   Add all the other ingredients to the flour, and knead well.

5. 5

   Let the dough rise overnight, and in the morning make into balls about the size of a large English walnut.

6. 6

   Roll each ball into a stick about a foot long.

7. 7

   Place the sticks about two inches apart in long pans.

8. 8

   Let them rise half an hour in a cool place, and bake twenty-five minutes in a very moderate oven.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Ransom's family receipt book, 1886 (1886) by D. Ransom, Son & Co, page 11. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Four cupfuls of flour, one tablespoonful of sugar, one-fourth of a cupful of butter, one cupful of boiled milk, the white of an egg, one- fourth of a cake of compressed yeast, one scant teaspoonful of salt

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