Berkshire Cakes

Ingredients

• one and one-half pints molasses
• two ounces butter
• one-half ounce soda
• one-half cup milk
• salt
• ginger
• sufficient flour to make dough stiff enough to roll out

Method

1. 1

   Roll out one-quarter inch thick, lay the whole sheet upon a well-dusted pan, cut with large knife into finger shapes to be two and one-half by four inches in size after they are baked; break before they are cold; before baking, prick well with a fork.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Perfection in baking (1895) by Emil Braun, page 32. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Berkshire Cakes, One and one-half pints molasses, two ounces butter, one-half ounce soda, one-half cup milk; salt, ginger and sufficient flour to make dough stiff enough to roll out

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