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Rolls

From Household hints, 1881

Nice rolls can be made by adding butter to bread-sponge.

Presented as published in 1881. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Household hints (1881) by Emma Whitcomb Babcock, page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Rolls. — One pint of scalded milk, let it cool, and add two tablespoonfuls of sugar, two of lard, two of yeast, a little salt. In winter, mix the batter over night ; in sum- mer, mix early in the morning. When light, knead and let it rise, then add a lump of butter

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