A Fine Cake

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (11)
Instructions (5)
  1. first boil your milk and butter, then scum off the butter, and mix it with your flour and a little of the milk
  2. stir the yeast into the rest and strain it, mix it with the flour
  3. put in your seeds and spices, rose water, tincture of saffron, sugar and eggs
  4. beat it all up well with your hands lightly
  5. bake it in a hoop or pan, but be sure to butter the pan well
Original Text
You must take a quarter of a peck of fine flour, a pound and a half of butter, three ounces of carraway seeds, five eggs beat well, a quarter of an ounce of cloves and mace beat together very fine, a pennyworth of cinnamon beat, a pound of sugar, a pennyworth of rose water, a pennyworth of saffron, a pint and a half of yeast, and a quart of milk; mix it all together lightly with your hands thus: first boil your milk and butter, then scum off the butter, and mix it with your flour and a little of the milk; stir the yeast into the rest and strain it, mix it with the flour, put in your seeds and spices, rose water, tincture of saffron, sugar and eggs; beat it all up well with your hands lightly, and bake it in a hoop or pan, but be sure to butter the pan well. It will take an hour and a half in a quick oven. You may leave out the seeds if you choose it, and I think it rather better without it, but that you must do as you like.
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