Banbury Cakes

Ingredients

• a quarter of a pound of butter
• half a pound of finely cut candied lemon and orange peel
• a pound of currants
• a quarter of an ounce of ground cinnamon
• a quarter of an ounce of allspice

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter to a cream, and mix it with the candied peel, currants, cinnamon, and allspice.

2. 2

   Roll out some pastry, cut it into pieces six or seven inches square, put the mixture in the middle of one half, fold the other over, pinch it into an oval shape, brush the tops with egg white, dust with caster sugar, and bake in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Recipes for the million (1891), page 11. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BANBURY CAKES. — Beat a quarter of a pound of butter to a cream, and mix it with half a pound of finely cut candied lemon and orange peel, a pound of currants, and a quarter of an ounce each of ground cinn

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