Lady Arundel's Manchet

Lady Arundel's Manchet is a variety of British scone but is made using yeast rather than with a baking agent.

Ingredients

• Fine wheat flour 2 lb.
• salt i/2 oz.
• butter 2 oz.
• egg 1
• warm milk 1 pint
• yeast 1 oz.
• castor sugar 1 teaspoonful

Time: to rise, 30 minutes: to bake 20 minutes according to size.

Procedure

1. Mix the salt in the flour, rub in the butter
2. Cream the yeast with the sugar
3. Add it to 3/4 pint of warm milk
4. Beat the egg and mix with the yeast and flour
5. Make a well in the flour, pour in the yeast mixture and mix into the dough
6. Shape the dough into small flat round cakes about 3/4 inch thick and 3 1/2 inches across
7. Mark manchets with lines to form diamond pattern
8. Leave to rise for thirty minutes in a warm place
9. Bake in a moderate oven until cooked.

Source

1932 Recipe