This section is from the book "Soyer's Standard Cookery", by Nicolas Soyer. Also available from Amazon: Soyer's Standard Cookery.
One cup of milk, one yeast cake dissolved in one-quarter of a cup of lukewarm water, flour, one-quarter of a cup of sugar, one teaspoonful of salt, one egg, yolk of one egg, one-eighth of a teaspoonful of mace, one-quarter cup of melted butter.
Scald milk; when lukewarm, add dissolved yeast cake and one and one-half cup of flour; beat well, cover, and let rise until light. Add sugar, salt, eggs well beaten, mace, and but-ter, and enough more flour to knead; knead, let rise again, shape, and bake same as salad rolls, or roll in a long strip to one-fourth inch in thickness, spread with butter, roll up like jelly roll, and cut in one inch pieces. Place pieces in pan close together, flat side down. A few gratings from the rind of a lemon or one-half teaspoonful lemon extract may be substituted in place of mace.
 
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