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Batafia Cheese-cakes

From Cassell's dictionary of cookery, 1892

Serves 1

Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1490. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Batafia Cheese-cakes.— Boil a pint of milk till lukewarm. Sweeten and flavour it with a dessert-spoonful of sugar and two table-spoonfuls of brandy, then stir into it a table-spoonful of rennet. Let it stand in a cool place till it is turned to a curd. Beat it well, draw off the whey, and stir into it three- quarters of an ounce of powdered ratafia bis- cuits, one ounce of dissolved butter

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