Rum Buns

Ingredients

• two pounds of flour
• an ounce of compressed yeast
• half a pint of lukewarm milk
• one ounce of sugar
• half an ounce of salt
• six eggs
• a pound and a half of butter
• a little sliced citron, or a few seeded raisins

Method

1. 1

   Make a thick batter with yeast, milk, and flour.

2. 2

   Let it rise, then add sugar, salt, eggs, and butter.

3. 3

   Knead and let rise again.

4. 4

   Bake in molds until a straw comes out clean.

5. 5

   Soak in rum syrup made from dissolved sugar and rum.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Corson's practical American cookery and household management (1885) by Juliet Corson, page 237. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Rum buns, or Savarin cakes, are baked in little moulds, which are thickly spread with cold butter, half filled with Savarin paste, allowed to rise one-third in height, and then baked in a moderate oven until a straw can be passed into them without any of the cake sticking to it ; the little cakes x^^'^T^'^'tm^^jr^-^ff Sauarin Cake or Bum Bun. or buns are cooled, and then set in a dish containing rum sirup until they absorb enough of it to soften them ; the sirup is made by dissolving in cold water as much white sugar as it will receive, and then flavoring it with the best Jamaica rum. Savarin paste is made as follows : Sift two pounds of flour 440 PRACTICAL AMERICAN COOKERY. into a deep bowl, make a hole in the middle, and put into it an ounce of compressed yeast, dissolved in half a pint of lukewarm milk ; with the milk mix enough of the flour to form a thick batter in the middle of the flour ; cover the bowl, and let the batter rise in a warm place until it is foam- ing ; then add one ounce of sugar, half an ounce of salt, mix in the rest of the flour, and knead in six eggs, one at a time ; then mix in a pound and a half of butter, and knead in six more eggs, one at a time, and enough warm milk to make a batter thick enough to retain its form when dropped from a spoon upon paper; stir in a little sliced citron, or a few seeded raisins

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.