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Plain Buns (Yeast Recipes)

1 compressed yeast cake 1 cup milk, scalded and cooled 1 tablespoonful sugar teaspoonful salt ¼ cup sugar ¼ cup butter 3 cups sifted Five Roses flour.

Dissolve yeast and one tablespoonful sugar in lukewarm milk, add one and onehalf cups of flour. Beat until smooth, then add butter and sugar creamed, the rest of the flour and salt. Knead lightly, keeping dough soft. Cover and set aside in warm place, free from draft, to rise until double in bulk about one and one half hours.

Mould into small round buns, place in well-greased pans, one inch apart. Cover, set aside to rise until light-about one hour. Brush with egg, diluted with water.

Bake twenty minutes. Just before removing from the ovens, brush with sugar moistened with a little water.