Mrs Beetons Baking Recipes Revisited
Light Buns
450g (1lb) Flour
285ml (½ pint) Cold Milk
110g (4oz) Currants or Raisins
50g (2oz) Butter
50g (2oz) Loaf Sugar
1 Egg
½ tsp Tartaric Acid
½ tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
Caraway Seeds (optional)
Sift the tartaric acid, bicarbonate of soda and flour together through a hair sieve.
Work the butter into the flour.
Add the sugar, currants and caraway seeds (if used).
Mix all the ingredients together well.
Make a hole in the middle of the flour and pour in the milk, mixed with the egg, which should be well beaten.
Mix quickly and put the dough, with a fork, on baking tins.
Bake the buns for about 20 minutes.
This mixture makes a very good cake and if put into a tin, should be baked 1½ hours.
The same quantity of flour, bicarbonate of soda and tartaric acid, with 285ml (½ pint) milk and a little salt, will make either bread or teacakes, if wanted quickly.
Time: 20 minutes for the buns. If made into a cake, 1½ hours.
Sufficient to make about 12 buns.
LIGHT BUNS
1731. INGREDIENTS - 1/2 teaspoonful of tartaric acid, 1/2 teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda, 1 lb. of flour, 2 oz. of butter, 2 oz. of loaf sugar, 1/4 lb. of currants or raisins, when liked, a few caraway seeds, 1/2 pint of cold new milk, 1 egg.
Mode - Rub the tartaric acid, soda, and flour all together through a hair sieve; work the butter into the flour; add the sugar, currants, and caraway seeds, when the flavour of them latter is liked. Mix all these ingredients well together; make a hole in the middle of the flour, and pour in the milk, mixed with the egg, which should be well beaten; mix quickly, and set the dough, with a fork, on baking-tins, and bake the buns for about 20 minutes. This mixture makes a very good cake, and if put into a tin, should be baked 1-1/2 hour. The same quantity of flour, soda, and tartaric acid, with 1/2 pint of milk and a little salt, will make either bread or teacakes, if wanted quickly.
Time - 20 minutes for the buns; if made into a cake, 1-1/2 hour.
Sufficient to make about 12 buns.
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