Add to about a quart of bread dough the beaten yolks of three eggs, half
a cupful of butter, and one cupful of sugar: mix all well together. When
formed into little cakes (rather high and slender, and placed very near
each other), rub the tops with sugar and water mixed; then sprinkle over
dry sugar. This should fill two pans.
PARKER HOUSE ROLLS (_Mrs. Samuel Treat_).
Ingredients: Two quarts of flour, one pint of milk (measured after
boiling), butter the size of an egg, one table-spoonful of sugar, one
tea-cupful of home-made yeast, and a little salt.
Make a hole in the flour. Put in the other ingredients, in the following
order: sugar, butter, milk, and yeast. Do not stir the ingredients after
putting them together. Arrange this at ten o’clock at night; set it in a
cool place until ten o’clock the next morning, when mix all together,
and knead it fifteen minutes by the clock. Put it in a cool place again
until four o’clock P.M., when cut out the rolls, and set each one apart
from its neighbor in the pan. Set it for half an hour in a warm place.
Bake fifteen minutes.