RUSKS.
Take a pint of milk, a quarter of a pound of butter; warm the butter in the milk with half a tea-cup full of sugar; stir in enough flour to make a very soft dough; beat three eggs very light, and add; lastly, put in a tea-cup full of yeast; do not beat it or any cake after the yeast goes in; set it in a warm place to rise; when light add more flour by stirring it in, but do not beat it; let it rise again; flour your board, and pour out your dough; cut in cakes, and put in pans; handle as little as possible, and do not put any more flour to them; set them to rise again, and as soon as light, bake.