Bath Buns

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New ... · Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady · 1840
Ingredients (15)
Another way
Instructions (10)
  1. Work all these up together into a paste, the thickness of half-a-crown.
  2. Cut it with a tea-cup.
  3. Flour a tin; lay the cakes upon it.
  4. Lay the white of an egg well beat and frothed on them with a feather.
  5. Grate upon them a little fine sugar.
Another way
  1. Let this sponge stand by the fire to rise.
  2. Beat it up extremely well and light with your hand.
  3. Grate in a nutmeg.
  4. Continue beating till it is ready for the oven.
  5. Then add a pound of rough caraway seeds, keeping a few out to strew on the top of the cakes before they are put into the oven.
Original Text
Bath Buns. Take a quarter of a pound of loaf sugar finely powdered, the same quantity of butter, and nearly double of flour dried before the fire, a walnut-shell full of caraway-seeds just bruised, and one egg. Work all these up together into a paste, the thickness of half-a-crown, and cut it with a tea-cup, flour a tin; lay the cakes upon it; take the white of an egg well beat and frothed; lay it on them with a feather, and then grate upon them a little fine sugar. Another way. Take one pound of fine flour, dry it well by the fire, sift it, and rub into it a pound of butter, the yolks of four eggs, the whites of two, both beaten light, three spoonfuls of cream, and the like quantity of white wine and ale yest. Let this sponge stand by the fire to rise; then beat it up extremely well and light with your hand; grate in a nutmeg; continue beating till it is ready for the oven; then add a pound of rough caraway seeds, keeping a few out to strew on the top of the cakes before they are put into the oven.
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