Wafers. ✠
- 1 pound of flour.
- 2 tablespoonfuls butter.
- A little salt.
Mix with sweet milk into a stiff dough, roll out very thin, cut into round cakes, and again roll these as thin as they can be handled. Lift them carefully, lay in a pan, and bake very quickly.
These are extremely nice, especially for invalids. They should be hardly thicker than writing-paper. Flour the baking-pan instead of greasing.
Crumpets (Sweet.)
- 1 pint raised dough.
- 3 eggs.
- 3 tablespoonfuls butter.
- ½ cup white sugar.
When your bread has passed its second rising, work into the above-named quantity the melted butter, then the eggs and sugar, beaten together until very light. Bake in muffin-rings about twenty minutes.
Crumpets (Plain.) ✠
- 3 cups warm milk.
- ½ cup yeast.
- 2 tablespoonfuls melted butter.
- 1 saltspoonful salt, and the same of soda, dissolved in hot water.
- Flour to make good batter.
Set these ingredients—leaving out the butter and soda—as a sponge. When very light, beat in the melted butter, with a very little flour, to prevent the butter from thinning the batter too much; stir in the soda hard, fill pattypans or muffin-rings with the mixture, and let them stand fifteen minutes before baking.
This is an excellent, easy, and economical receipt.