Mrs Beeton Recipes

Mrs Beeton Recipes

INGREDIENTS

450g (1lb) Flour
170g (6oz) Good Butter
150ml (¼ pint) Milk (approx)
110g (4oz) Sugar
1 Egg Yolk
2 small tsp Baking Powder
Few Drops Lemon Essence

Warm the butter, without oiling it.
Beat with a wooden spoon.
Stir the flour in gradually with the sugar and mix together well.
Heat the milk to lukewarm, beat with it the yolk egg and the lemon essence and stir into the flour, etc.
Add the baking powder, beat the dough well for about 10 minutes.
Divide it into 24 pieces.
Put into buttered tins or cups.
Bake in a brisk oven from 20 to 30 minutes.

Time: 20 to 30 minutes.
Sufficient to make 12 buns.
Seasonable at any time.

TO MAKE GOOD PLAIN BUNS

1730. INGREDIENTS - 1 lb. of flour, 6 oz. of good butter, 1/4 lb. of sugar, 1 egg, nearly 1/4 pint of milk, 2 small teaspoonfuls of baking-powder, a few drops of essence of lemon.

Mode - Warm the butter, without oiling it; beat it with a wooden spoon; stir the flour in gradually with the sugar, and mix these ingredients well together. Make the milk lukewarm, beat up with it the yolk of the egg and the essence of lemon, and stir these to the flour, &c. Add the baking-powder, beat the dough well for about 10 minutes, divide it into 24 pieces, put them into buttered tins or cups, and bake in a brisk oven from 20 to 30 minutes.