Light Wigs

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747

Source: The Art Of Cookery
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (6)

a pound and a half of flour ↝ Flour, 00 [Cereal Grains and Pasta]
half a pint of milk made warm ↝ Milk, NFS [Milk, reduced fat]
half a pound of sugar ↝ Sugar, NFS [Sugars and honey]
half a pound of butter ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]
as little flour as possible ↝ Flour, 00 [Cereal Grains and Pasta]
a quarter of a pint of good ale yeast in milk ↝ Yeast [Not included in a food category]

Instructions (7)

Mix 1.5 pounds of flour with 0.5 pint of warm milk.
Cover the mixture and let it lie by the fire for half an hour.
Add 0.5 pound of sugar and 0.5 pound of butter to the mixture.
Work these into a paste.
Make the paste into wigs using as little additional flour as possible.
Bake in a pretty quick oven; they will rise very much.
Ensure to mix 0.25 pint of good ale yeast in milk.

Original Text

To make Light Wigs.
TAKE a pound and a half of flour, and half a pint of milk
made warm, mix these together, cover it up, and let it lie by
the fire half an hour; then take half a pound of sugar, and
half a pound of butter, then work these into a paste and make
it into wigs, with as little flour as possible. Let the oven be
pretty quick, and they will rise very much. Mind to mix a
quarter of a pint of good ale yeast in milk.

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