Ingredients
- 3 cupfuls of flour will be taken up
- 3/4 cup of water
- a cupful of ice water into a cold bowl
- 1/4 teaspn
- one beaten raw yolk may be added to each 3/4 cup of water
Directions
Put a cupful of ice water into a cold bowl. Add ¼ teaspn. of salt if desired, but the rolls will have more of the sweet, nutty flavor of the flour without it. Agitate the water until full of bubbles and sprinkle in the cold flour as for gems. When the batter is too stiff to beat, take it out on to a cold floured board and knead, using as little flour as possible, until smooth and elastic. About 3 cupfuls of flour will be taken up. Divide the dough, roll it quickly and evenly to about ¾ in. in diameter, cut into 3 in. lengths and set in ice box to rest. Bake in a moderate oven with steady heat until the rolls will not yield to pressure between the thumb and finger and are of a delicate brown.
If preferred, the water may be poured over the flour and the dough kneaded the same. The dough may rest before being rolled out.
The yolk of a hard boiled egg rubbed into each pint of flour makes more tender rolls; or one beaten raw yolk may be added to each ¾ cup of water.