Shrewsbury Cakes

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784

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

Ingredients (5)

half a pound of butter ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]
half a pound of flour ↝ Flour, 00 [Cereal Grains and Pasta]
one egg ↝ Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg whole [Dairy and Egg Products]
six ounces of loaf sugar beat and sifted ↝ Sugar, NFS [Sugars and honey]
half an ounce of carraway seeds mixed into a paste ↝ Seeds, lotus seeds, raw [Nut and Seed Products]

Instructions (8)

beat the butter to a cream
put in the flour, egg, sugar, and carraway seeds
mix into a paste
roll them thin
cut them round with a small glass, or little tins
prick them
lay them on sheets of tin
bake them in a slow oven

Original Text

To make SHREWSBURY CAKES.
TAKE half a pound of butter, beat it to a cream, then put in half a pound of flour, one egg, six ounces of loaf sugar beat and sifted, half an ounce of carraway seeds mixed into a paste, roll them thin, and cut them round with a small glass, or little tins, prick them, and lay them on sheets of tin, and bake them in a slow oven.

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