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Banbury Cakes

Name: Banbury Cakes
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: 3 lbs. of flour; 1 lb. of butter nibbed into the flour; mix it with milk; a little balm; about two ounces; sugar; currants; a little of the essence of lemons

From Consult me, 1902

Serves 6

Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Consult me (1902) by Robert Kemp Philp, page 41. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BANBURY CAKES. Take 3 lbs. of flour, i lb. of butter nibbed | into the flour, mix it with milk and a little balm ; about two ounces for a penny ; roll them round, then put sugar, currants, and a little of the essence of lemons

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