The Laurel Health Cookery: A Collection of Practical Suggestions and Recipes for the Preparation of Non-Flesh Foods in Palatable and Attractive Ways

in length. When the rolls are light in the pan, gash the top of each diagonally three times with a sharp knife. Bake in a moderate oven. Roll dough into a long strip, cut into 3-in. lengths, lay close together in pan, brush with syrup made by cooking together for one minute equal quantities of milk and sugar; let rise, bake, for _Finger_ rolls. Sometimes roll dough thick and cut with small round cutter. For _Shamrock_ rolls, put three small round balls of dough in each gem or muffin cup. _Cleft_ rolls. Make dough into balls; when light, cut each roll across the top with a sharp knife, about 1 in. deep, or, once each side of the center, or, once each way, making a cross roll. =Buttermilk Rolls= 1 pt. buttermilk ½-¾ cup oil 4 tablespns. yeast with warm water to make ½ cup 1 tablespn. sugar 1 teaspn. salt white flour Warm buttermilk, add yeast and sugar with flour for sponge; when light, add salt, and flour for soft dough, let rise and shape into rolls. =Swiss Rolls. Bennett’s= 1½ cup skimmed milk 1 tablespn. sugar 1½ tablespn. butter 1 cake compressed yeast ½ teaspn. salt 1 egg, white flour Boil milk, sugar and butter together, cool, add yeast, sprinkle in flour gradually, agitating and beating liquid with batter whip; beat in the egg and flour, beating with strong spoon, for a very stiff batter, so stiff that it beats hard (may knead to soft dough). Leave in warm kitchen 1 hr. or longer, set in icebox for several hrs. or 2 days; roll, handling lightly, ¾ in. thick, spread with soft butter, roll up, cut off 1½ in. thick, let rise, bake in moderate oven. The dough may be baked in loaves and used for dainty sandwiches. =★ Crumb Rolls= _Sponge_-- 1 pt. skimmed milk ⅓ cup oil ⅔ cake yeast 4 cups bread flour _When light_--2 cups dry bread crumbs (not very fine), a little salt if crumbs are not very salt, flour to knead rather soft. Shape, and bake when light. One chef made himself