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To make common buns

Rub four ounces of butter into two pounds of flour, a little salt, four ounces of sugar, a desert spoonful of caraways, and a teaspoonful of ginger; put some warm milk or cream to four table spoonfulls of yeast; mix all together into a paste, but not too stiff; cover it over and set it before the fire an hour to rise, then make it into buns, put them on a tin, set them before the fire for a quarter of an hour, cover over with flannel, then brush them with very warm milk and bake them of a nice brown in a moderate oven.