Sally Lunn for Cakes

Ingredients

• nearly all, or 2.5 pounds, or 5 or 6 cups of the dough
• 1/2 cup butter, melted
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• 2 eggs and 2 yolks
• 1/2 cup warm milk
• 2 cups flour

Method

1. 1

   Work them all together and beat up very thoroughly.

2. 2

   It is like muffin dough or fritters, too soft to handle.

3. 3

   Let rise until 5.

4. 4

   Beat again.

5. 5

   Divide it in 4 or 5 pie pans previously buttered and rise half an hour, then bake and have them hot and ready at 6.

6. 6

   Cut like pieces of pie carefully with a sharp knife not to crush it.

7. 7

   Makes 24 to 28 cuts; costs 20 or 21 cents.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 199. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sally Lunn foa Cakes. If you are making rolls or bread daily, for the evening meal it will be easy to change the dough into sally lunn. Make up the dough at, say, 11 o'clock, the same as at No. 532 and let it rise until 3. Then take nearly all, or 2j4 pounds, or 5 or 6 cups of the dough. Yo, cup butter, melted. 3 tablespoons sugar 2 eggs and 2 yolks. 54 cup warm milk. 2 cups iiour. Work them all together and beat up very thoroughly. It is like muffin dougn or fritters, too soft to handle. Let rise until 5. Beat again. Divide it in 4 or 5 pie pans previously buttered and rise half an hour, then bake and have them hot and ready at 6. Cut like pieces of pie carefully with^ a sharp knife not to crush it. Send it in instead of rolls. Makes 24 to 28 cuts; costs 20 or 21 cents. 645— Cookies without Eggs, 1 small cup sugar — 6 ounces. ^ cup butter — 4 ounces. 2 small cups milk — little less than a pint. 3 heaped up teaspoons baking powder. Flour to make soft dough — about 6 cups. Warm the butter and mix it and the sugar together and then the milk (water will do.) Mix the powder in the flour, stir all together. Roll out very thin. Shake some granulated sugar over the sheet of dough, cut out and bake well done. Costs 17 or 18 cents for about 100 cookies. Breakfast. July 16. Fresh raspberries (2 qts,.2o cents.) Oatmeal (2 cents.) Beefsteak (8 orders, i lb, and butter, 18 cents.) Mutton chops (11 orders, V/^ lbs, i8 cents.) Ham (6 orders, 12 ozs, equal i lb, gross, 15 cents.) Omelets and boiled eggs {20 eggs, 25 cents.) Potatoes German fried (5 cents.) Corn bread (without eggs. No. 626; 5 cents.) Buttermilk muffins (without eggs. No. 646; 22, 8 cents.) Rice batter cakes (10 cents.) Milk, cream, buttermilk 36, coffee, tea, sugar 20, butter 18, syrup 8, bread 6. Total, $2 14; 27 persons; 8J^ cents a SAN liRANCISCO HOTEL GAZETTE'S 69 plate. 646— Buttermilk MufTins without Eggs. 4 cups flour

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