Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

2 c Sugar
4 ea Egg, well beaten
4 tb Butter
1 c Yeast
1 x *dissolved in:
1/2 c Water, lukewarm
4 c Milk
1 ts Salt
1 x Flour

Scald milk and add the eggs and butter. When cool, add the dissolved
yeast, salt, sugar and enough flour to form a thin batter. Beat all
together about 7 minutes, cover well and set bowl containing mixture
in warm place for 7 or 8 hours. After time has elapsed, add enough
flour to make a soft dough, knead lightly and set to rise again. When
well-raised, roll dough to one inch thickness and cut in biscuit
shapes. Allow to rise a second time. Before placing in oven, spread
with the following mixture: Mix 2 cups sugar with 4 Tbsp flour and
add 1/2 cup butter and cream well; add 4 Tbsp boiling water and beat
mixture into a sauce. Bake at 400-F about 20 minutes. Source:
Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book - Fine Old Recipes, Culinary Arts Press,
1936.

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