TAKE a quartern of fine flour

The housekeeper's instructor; or, uni... · William Augustus Henderson · 1791
Source
The housekeeper's instructor; or, universal family cook
Time
Cook: 90 min Total: 90 min
Status
success · extracted 11 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (11)
Instructions (6)
  1. Mix all together lightly in the following manner
  2. first boil your milk and butter, then skim off the butter, and mix it with your flour, and a little of the milk.
  3. Stir the yeast into the yeast, and strain it.
  4. Mix it with the flour, put in your seeds and spice, rose-water, tincture of saffron, sugar, and eggs.
  5. Beat it all well up, and bake it in a hoop or pan well buttered.
  6. Send it to a quick oven, and an hour and a half will do it.
Original Text
TAKE a quartern of fine flour, a pound and a half of butter, three ounces of carraway seeds, six eggs well beaten, a quarter of an ounce of cloves and mace fine beaten together, a little cinnamon pounded, a pound of sugar, a little rose-water and saffron, a pint and a half of yeast, and a quart of milk. Mix all toge-ther lightly in the following manner; first boil your milk and butter, then skim off the butter, and mix it with your flour, and a little of the milk. Stir the yeast into the yeast, and strain it. Mix it with the flour, put in your seeds and spice, rose-water, tincture of saffron, sugar, and eggs. Beat it all well up, and bake it in a hoop or pan well buttered. Send it to a quick oven, and an hour and a half will do it.
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