Sally Lunn Recipe 1

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 pint milk
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 7 cups sifted flour
• 4 beaten eggs
• 1/2 cup of good, lively yeast or 1/2 cake of compressed yeast dissolved in lukewarm water
• 1 teaspoon baking soda

1. Warm butter in milk. Add salt, sugar, and flour and beat thoroughly.
2. When the mixture is warm, add beaten eggs and yeast or compressed yeast.
3. Beat hard until the batter breaks in blisters.
4. Set it to rise.
5. In the morning, dissolve a teaspoon of baking soda.
6. Stir it into the batter and turn it into a well-buttered shallow dish to rise again in about fifteen or twenty minutes.
7. Bake about twenty minutes at 350 degrees until a light brown.
8. They should be torn apart, not cut.

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