Florence White

Belvoir Castle Buns

1869

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Medium

    • Ready in

      2 hr

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By Florence White

Published 1932

  • About

These buns were made at Belvoir Castle and were greatly liked by the Duke of Rutland, who often asked for them. The recipe has been preserved and handed on through the interest the head kitchenmaid at that period took in her job.

Ingredients

  • Flour, plain 2 lb.
  • sugar 6 oz.
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Method

  1. Place the flour in a basin.
  2. Add the butter and rub it in till the mixture looks like bread-crumbs.
  3. Mix in the sugar.
  4. Place the yeast in a small basin, cream it with a little sugar.
  5. Take 1 gill of the milk, let it boil a