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Bath Buns (Old English Recipe)

1½ pounds Five Roses flour ¾ pound butter ¾ pound sugar lemon peel (finely chopped) yeast cake (or 2 ounces good liquid yeast) 6 eggs Lemon or vanilla flavoring 1 pint warm milk (or milk and water) 1 teaspoon salt.

Dissolve the yeast in the warm milk, and make a sponge with 1 pound Five Roses flour. Cover up and let rise for about 15 minutes. Rub the butter into the remainder of the flour. When sponge has risen, break in the eggs and stir well.

Then add the salt, also the flour. Mix all together to a nice dough and set aside to rise well-covered. When well risen, spread the dough out on the board, add the peel, sugar and flavoring. Mix well and mould into buns of about 3 ounces each. Put in well-greased tin and set to rise. Then wash over with beaten egg, sprinkle with a little sugar and bake in moderate oven. --Mrs. W. A. Fraser, Iron Springs, Alta.