Name: Plain Sandwich Roll
Ingredients: 1 pail water; 6 ounces yeast; 2½ pounds sugar; 2½ pounds lard; 5 ounces coarse sea salt

Plain Sandwich Roll

Ingredients

Directions

In a large bowl, combine water, yeast, sugar, lard, and salt to make a slack dough.
Knead the dough well until smooth.
Divide the dough into 2-ounce pieces and shape them into rounds.
Place the rounds on baking pans, ensuring they are spaced apart.
Allow the rolls to proof until doubled in size.
Preheat the oven to 450°F (230°C) and bake the rolls until golden.
Brush the rolls with water or lard while hot.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.