Soda Buns

Ingredients

• 1 lb. flour
• 1 lb. butter or clarified dripping
• J- lb. castor sugar, or to taste
• 2 oz. mixed peel
• 2 eggs
• 1 gill milk or more
• I teaspoonful baking powder
• ■1 ,, carbonate soda
• A pinch of salt

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter or dripping to a cream, dissolve the soda in the milk, separate the eggs, beat the yolks, add them to the milk, and shred the peel.

2. 2

   Then add these ingredients and the sugar gradually to the fat, beating well.

3. 3

   Whip the whites of eggs to a stiff froth, and stir them in lightly last thing; also the baking powder.

4. 4

   Shape the buns roughly with two forks, put them on a greased baking sheet, sprinkle with castor sugar, decorate with a little peel, and bake in a quick oven about ½ hour.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery book and general axioms for plain cookery (1890) by E. Briggs, page 35. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SODA BUNS. Ingredients : — 1 lb. flour. 1 lb. butter or clarified dripping. J- lb. castor sugar, or to taste. 2 oz. mixed peel. 2 eggs. _ 1 gill milk or more. I teaspoonful baking powder. ■1 ,, carbonate soda. A pinch of salt

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