Baking
Rusks (Zweiback)
A measured 1910 bake built around scalded milk, preserved with its original method and page citation.
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What you’ll need
Ingredients
- ½ cup scalded milk
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 yeast cakes
- ¼ cup sugar
- ¼ cup melted butter
- 3 eggs
- Flour
Make it happen
Directions
- 1
Dissolve yeast cakes in milk; when lukewarm, add salt and one cup flour; cover, and let rise until very light; then add sugar, butter, eggs unbeaten, and flour enough to handle. 62 Shape as finger rolls, and place close together on a buttered sheet in parallel rows, two inches apart; let rise again and bake twenty minutes. When cold, cut diagonally in one-half inch slices, and brown evenly in oven.
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