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Sally Lunn, No. 1

From Virginia Cookery-book, 1884

Serves 3

Best prepared the night before.

Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • Half a pint of milk
  • one pound of flour
  • two eggs
  • one ounce of butter
  • a teaspoonful of sugar
  • a light teaspoonful of salt
  • one gill of yeast

Method

  1. Mix the ingredients the last thing at night and set to rise in a covered pan.

  2. Allow it to swell in a warm or cool place.

  3. If over-risen or sour, mix half a teaspoonful of soda in sour milk and stir in gradually.

  4. Grease a one-pound cake-mould, let it rise for half an hour, then bake and serve hot with butter.

Nutrition per serving

736Calories
33 gProtein
133 gCarbs
18 gFat

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 11. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sally Lunn, No. 1. Half a pint of milk, one pound of flour, two eggs, one ounce of butter, a teaspoonful of sugar, a light teaspoon- ful of salt, one gill of yeast

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