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Powhatan Rolls

From Virginia Cookery-book, 1884

Serves 12

Watch the dough rise carefully.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • three pints of flour
  • one teaspoonf ul of salt
  • one table-spoonful of sugar
  • three eggs
  • six table-spoonfuls of yeast
  • a lump of butter the size of a walnut

Method

  1. Combine ingredients into a dough, let rise, shape into rolls, and glaze with egg white before baking.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 12. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Powhatan Bolls. Three pints of flour, one teaspoonf ul of salt, one table- spoonful of sugar, three eggs, six table-spoonfuls of yeast, a lump of butter the size of a walnut

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