Thin Cakes

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (7)
Instructions (6)
  1. Make them warm together.
  2. Make up the bread stiff.
  3. Roll it out.
  4. Make it up into thin cakes.
  5. Cut them out with a teacup, or small glass, or roll them round like nuts.
  6. Bake them on tin plates in a slack oven.
Original Text
TAKE three pounds of flour, one pound of sugar, one pound of butter rubbed in very fine, two ounces of Ginger beat fine, a large nutmeg grated; then take a pound of treacle, a quarter of a pint of cream, make them warm together, and make up the bread stiff, roll it out, and make it up into thin cakes, cut them out with a teacup, or small glass, or roll them round like nuts, and bake them on tin plates in a slack oven.
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