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Lunch or Dinner Rolls

From The bride's cook book, 1915

Serves 2

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • 2 Cups Barley Flour
  • 1 Cup Rice or Potato Flour
  • 1 Cup Corn Flour or Buckwheat
  • 1 Cake Compressed Yeast
  • 1 or 2 Eggs
  • 1 Tablespoon Shortening
  • 1 Teaspoon Sugar
  • 1 Teaspoon Salt
  • 1 Cup Warm Milk

Method

  1. Dissolve yeast by breaking into a couple of tablespoons of warm water; mix with one teaspoon of sugar and let stand while mixing other ingredients.

  2. The flours should be sifted and mixed well.

  3. Melt the shortening in the warm milk; add sugar, salt, and well beaten egg, and last the yeast.

  4. Add enough flour to make a stiff batter.

  5. Beat well, set in a warm place and let it rise.

  6. Add more flour to make a soft dough.

  7. Knead briskly until full of air bubbles.

  8. Let it rise and then make into rolls.

  9. Brush over, let it rise in pans and bake in a quick oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The bride's cook book (1915) by Edgar William Briggs, page 15. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 Cake Compressed Yeast Mix sugar, shortening and salt first; rub these ingredients until very light; add J/2 cup of the milk. Dissolve the yeast in ^ cup of milk. Sift the flours together and add ^ of the flour to the mixture of sugar, shortening, salt and milk. Add yeast and rest of flour to this mixture and make into a dough. Brush over with milk or with yolk of egg beaten with a teaspoon of water. Let rise for 2^ hours in a warm place, then break down. Let it rise again for 1^ hours. ^ Put into loaves, brush surface with milk or with yolk of egg and bake for 1 hour. LUNCH OR DINNER ROLLS Contributed by the Fleischmann Yeast Company of California. 2 Cups Barley Flour 1 Cup Rice or Potato Flour 1 Cup Corn Flour or Buckwheat 1 Cake Conapressed Yeast 1 or 2 Eggs 1 Tablespoon Shortening 1 Teaspoon Sugar 1 Teaspoon Salt 1 Cup Warm Milk

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