Light Rolls

Ingredients

• One pint of whey
• Flour
• Four tablespoonful of lard
• One teaspoonful of sugar
• One egg
• Salt
• Yeast (either yeast cake of compressed)

Directions

1. Boil one pint of whey.
2. Pour boiled whey onto a half tablespoonful of flour.
3. Let it stand until cool and then stir in yeast to preference.
4. Then add flour sufficient to have it form a stiffened batter- proceed to beat for about thirty minutes.
5. Allow for about four hours for the batter to rise. 
6. Then sift enough flour to coat the batter and subsequently coat your risen batter with it.
7. Next add four tablespoonsful of lard, one teaspoonful of sugar, one egg, and salt to taste.
8. Make out batter into rolls and once they've sufficiently risen- bake in oven to preference.

Source — New Orleans Cook Book
Prepared by Aidan Hartnett
Louisiana Anthology
September 26, 2021