Rusks

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New ... · Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady · 1840
Source
The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;: In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed.
Status
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Not a recipe
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Ingredients (11)
Instructions (12)
  1. Take flour, water, or milk, yest, and brown sugar; work it just the same as for bread.
  2. Make it up into a long loaf, and bake it.
  3. Then let it be one day old before you cut it in slices.
  4. Make your oven extremely hot, and dry them in it for about two minutes, watching them all the time.
Another way
  1. Put five pounds of fine flour in a large basin; add to it eight eggs unbeat, yolks and whites.
  2. Dissolve half a pound of sugar over the fire, in a choppin (or a Scotch quart) of new milk.
  3. Add all this to the flour with half a mutchkin, (one English pint) of new yest; mix it well, and set it before a good fire covered with a cloth.
  4. Let it stand half an hour, then work it up with a little more flour, and let it stand half an hour longer.
  5. Then take it out of the basin, and make it up on a board into small round or square biscuits.
  6. Place them upon sheets of white iron, and set them before the fire, covered with a cloth, till they rise, which will be in half an hour.
  7. Put them into the oven, just when the bread is taken out; shut the oven till the biscuits turn brown on the top.
  8. Then take them out, and cut them through.
Original Text
Rusks. Take flour, water, or milk, yest, and brown sugar; work it just the same as for bread. Make it up into a long loaf, and bake it. Then let it be one day old before you cut it in slices: make your oven extremely hot, and dry them in it for about two minutes, watching them all the time. Another way. Put five pounds of fine flour in a large basin; add to it eight eggs unbeat, yolks and whites; dissolve half a pound of sugar over the fire, in a choppin (or a Scotch quart) of new milk; add all this to the flour with half a mutchkin, (one English pint) of new yest; mix it well, and set it before a good fire covered with a cloth. Let it stand half an hour, then work it up with a little more flour, and let it stand half an hour longer. Then take it out of the basin, and make it up on a board into small round or square biscuits, place them upon sheets of white iron, and set them before the fire, covered with a cloth, till they rise, which will be in half an hour. Put them into the oven, just when the bread is taken out; shut the oven till the biscuits turn brown on the top; then take them out, and cut them through.
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