PIKELETS

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (5)
Instructions (8)
  1. Take three pounds of flour, make a hole in the middle with your hand.
  2. Mix two spoonfuls of barm, with as much milk and a little salt as will make it into a light paste.
  3. Pour your milk and barm into the middle of your flour, and stir a little of your flour into it.
  4. Let it stand all night.
  5. The next morning work all the flour into the barm, and beat it well for a quarter of an hour.
  6. Let it stand an hour.
  7. After that take it out with a large spoon, and lay it on a board well dusted with flour, and dredge flour over them.
  8. Pat it with your hand, and bake them upon your bake-stone.
Original Text
To make PIKELETS. TAKE three pounds of flour, make a hole in the middle with your hand, then mix two spoonfuls of barm, with as much milk and a little salt as will make it into a light paste, pour your milk and barm into the middle of your flour, and stir a little of your flour into it, then let it stand all night, and the next morning work all the flour into the barm, and beat it well for a quarter of an hour, then let it stand an hour; after that take it out with a large spoon, and lay it on a board well dusted with flour, and dredge flour over them; pat it with your hand, and bake them upon your bake-stone.
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