Sugar Cakes

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (4)
Instructions (5)
  1. Work a pound and a half of very fine flour, a pound of cold butter, and half a pound of sugar, well together into a paste.
  2. Roll it with the palms of your hands into balls, and cut them with a glass into cakes.
  3. Lay them in a sheet of paper with some flour under them.
  4. To bake them you may make tumbles, only blanch almonds, and beat them small, and lay them in the midst of a long piece of paste, and roll it round with your fingers, and cast them into knots, in what fashion you please.
  5. Prick them and take them.
Original Text
Sugar Cakes. WORK a pound and a half of very fine flour, a pound of cold butter, and half a pound of sugar, well together into a paste, then roll it with the palms of your hands into balls, and cut them with a glass into cakes; lay them in a sheet of paper with some flour under them; to bake them you may make tumbles, only blanch in almonds, and beat them small, and lay them in the midst of a long piece of paste, and roll it round with your fingers, and cast them into knots, in what fashion you please; prick them and take them.
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