Light Buns

The Book of Household Management · Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) · 1861
Source
The Book of Household Management
Time
Cook: 20 min Total: 20 min
Yield
12.0 buns
Status
success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (9)
Instructions (7)
  1. Rub the tartaric acid, soda, and flour all together through a hair sieve.
  2. Work the butter into the flour.
  3. Add the sugar, currants, and caraway seeds, when the flavour of them latter is liked.
  4. Mix all these ingredients well together.
  5. Make a hole in the middle of the flour, and pour in the milk, mixed with the egg, which should be well beaten.
  6. Mix quickly, and set the dough, with a fork, on baking-tins.
  7. Bake the buns for about 20 minutes.
Original Text
LIGHT BUNS. [Illustration: BUNS.] 1731. INGREDIENTS.—1/2 teaspoonful of tartaric acid, 1/2 teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda, 1 lb. of flour, 2 oz. of butter, 2 oz. of loaf sugar, 1/4 lb. of currants or raisins,—when liked, a few caraway seeds, 1/2 pint of cold new milk, 1 egg. Mode.—Rub the tartaric acid, soda, and flour all together through a hair sieve; work the butter into the flour; add the sugar, currants, and caraway seeds, when the flavour of them latter is liked. Mix all these ingredients well together; make a hole in the middle of the flour, and pour in the milk, mixed with the egg, which should be well beaten; mix quickly, and set the dough, with a fork, on baking-tins, and bake the buns for about 20 minutes. This mixture makes a very good cake, and if put into a tin, should be baked 1-1/2 hour. The same quantity of flour, soda, and tartaric acid, with 1/2 pint of milk and a little salt, will make either bread or teacakes, if wanted quickly. Time.—20 minutes for the buns; if made into a cake, 1-1/2 hour. Sufficient to make about 12 buns.
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