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French Rolls

Ingredients

• 1 pound of flour
• 2 ounces of butter
• whites only of 3 eggs
• 1 table-spoonful of strong yeast
• milk
• 1 salt-spoonful of salt

Instructions

Sift flour into a pan, and rub into it the butter; mix in the whites, beaten to a stiff froth, and the yeast; add sufficient milk to make a stiff dough, and the salt. Cover it and set it before the fire to rise. It should be light in an hour. Then put it on a paste-board, divide it into rolls, or round cakes; lay them in a floured square pan, and bake them about ten minutes in a quick oven.

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Source

Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches (1840).