Shrewsbury Cakes a second Way

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784

Source: The Experienced English Housekeeper
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (5)

a pound of butter ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]
a pound of double refined sugar
a little mace ↝ Spices, mace, ground [Spices and Herbs]
four eggs ↝ Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg whole [Dairy and Egg Products]
a pound and a half of fine flour ↝ Flour, semolina, fine [Cereal Grains and Pasta]

Instructions (3)

To a pound of butter beat and sift a pound of double refined sugar, a little mace, and four eggs, beat them all together with your hand till it is very light, and looks curdling.
Then shake in a pound and a half of fine flour.
Roll it thin, and cut it into little cakes with a tin, and bake them.

Original Text

To make SHREWSBURY CAKES a second Way.
TO a pound of butter beat and sift a pound of double refined sugar, a little mace, and four eggs, beat them all together with your hand till it is very light, and looks curdling, then shake in a pound and a half of fine flour, roll it thin, and cut it into little cakes with a tin, and bake them.

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