Take the flour; wet it with warm milk, and the yest, butter, and salt. Do not make the dough too stiff at first, but let it rise awhile; then work in the flour to the proper consistency. Set it to rise some time longer, then form your rolls of any size you please; bake them in a warmish oven; twenty minutes will bake the small and half an hour the large ones.
The Lady's Own Cookery Book (1844).