“"I am going to ask you to find out whether the people at the refreshment-place could give my niece something by way of substitute for dinner. A cup of coffee, or cocoa with milk, a roll and butter, and a slice of cold beef or ham?"”
A cook of roughly the same moment, setting down the same dish.
2 cups milk 1½ yeast cakes ──────┬────────────── Butter│½ cup each Lard │ Sugar │ ──────┴────────────── Flour 1 egg ½ teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon salt Melted butter Confectioners’ sugar Vanilla Scald milk, when lukewarm add yeast cakes, and as soon as dissolved add three and one-half cups flour. Beat thoroughly, cover, and let rise; then add butter, lard, sugar, egg unbeaten, cinnamon, salt, and flour enough to knead. Knead until well mixed, cover, and let rise. Turn mixture on a floured cloth. Roll into a long, rectangular piece one-fourth inch thick. Brush over with melted butter, fold from ends toward centre to make three layers and cut off pieces three-fourths inch wide. Cover and let rise.
Sources: The passage is from Richard Dehan, That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day, free to read in full at Project Gutenberg. The recipe is from Farmer, The Boston cooking-school cook book of 1896, also free in full. Both are in the public domain in the United States. The binding above is ours — navy cloth, boar stamp.