Basle Cakes

Ingredients

• One pound of flour
• quarter of a pound of butter
• four eggs
• six ounces of white sugar
• the grated rind of a lemon
• half a tea-cupful of cream
• one small tea-spoonful of baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter to cream; mix the baking powder, lemon-peel, and powdered sugar with the flour, and add them to the butter; then add the eggs, well beaten, and the cream; mix all well together; roll it in balls on a board; flatten them a little, and bake on tins, in a moderately hot oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Vegetarian cookery (1891) by Martha Brotherton, page 123. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Basle Cakes. One pound of flour, quarter of a pound of butter, four eggs, six ounces of white sugar, the grated rind of a lemon, half a tea-cupful of cream, and one small tea-spoonful of baking powder

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