Cookies¹

• flour
• sugar
• butter
• yeast
• salt
• eggs

Sieve one and a half pounds of flour into a warm basin and make a hole in the centre. Melt three ounces of butter in a saucepan, add three gills of milk and make lukewarm. Cream an ounce of yeast with a teaspoonful of salt, pour over this the warm milk and butter, and strain into the middle of the fl