Sally Lunn.—Tea Cakes.—(No. 101.)

The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's ... · Kitchiner, William · 1817
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The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual
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Ingredients (5)
Instructions (9)
  1. Put the warm milk and small-beer yest into a pan with flour sufficient to make it as thick as batter.
  2. Cover it over, and let it stand till it has risen as high as it will, i. e. about two hours.
  3. Add the lump sugar dissolved in warm milk, and the butter rubbed into your flour very fine.
  4. Make your dough the same as for French rolls, &c.; and let it stand half an hour.
  5. Make up your cakes, and put them on tins.
  6. When they have stood to rise, bake them in a quick oven.
Yest Temperature Guidance
  1. Care should be taken never to put your yest to water or milk too hot, or too cold, as either extreme will destroy the fermentation.
  2. In summer it should be lukewarm, in winter a little warmer, and in very cold weather, warmer still.
Storage of Risen Yest
  1. When it has first risen, if you are not prepared, it will not hurt to stand an hour.
Original Text
Sally Lunn.—Tea Cakes.—(No. 101.) Take one pint of milk quite warm, a quarter of a pint of thick small-beer yest; put them into a pan with flour sufficient to make it as thick as batter,—cover it over, and let it stand till it has risen as high as it will, i. e. about two hours: add two ounces of lump sugar, dissolved in a quarter of a[391] pint of warm milk,391-* a quarter of a pound of butter rubbed into your flour very fine; then make your dough the same as for French rolls, &c.; and let it stand half an hour; then make up your cakes, and put them on tins: when they have stood to rise, bake them in a quick oven. Care should be taken never to put your yest to water or milk too hot, or too cold, as either extreme will destroy the fermentation. In summer it should be lukewarm, in winter a little warmer, and in very cold weather, warmer still. When it has first risen, if you are not prepared, it will not hurt to stand an hour.
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