Tea Rusks

#25
Bread

Original Recipe Card

Original recipe card for Tea Rusks

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 pints Flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon Salt
  • 2 tablespoons Sugar
  • 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
  • 2 tablespoons Butter
  • Three Eggs
  • 1 teaspoon Nutmeg (Extract)
  • 1 teaspoon Cinnamon (Extract)
  • 3/4 pint Milk

Instructions

  1. Sift together flour, salt, sugar and powder; rub in butter; add milk, beaten eggs and extracts.
  2. Mix into dough soft enough to handle; flour the board, turn out dough, give it quick turn or two to complete its smoothness.
  3. Roll under the hands into round balls size of a small egg; lay them on greased shallow cake-pan, put very close together, sprinkle a little sugar over, bake in moderately heated oven about 30 minutes.