Busks made with Sour Cream

Ingredients

• five ounces of butter
• a pound of flour
• a pinch of salt
• four tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar
• two ounces of candied peel
• a little more than half a pint of thick sour cream
• half a tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda
• a tea-spoonful of powdered sugar
• a tea-spoonful of flour

Method

1. 1

   Rub butter into flour, add salt, sugar, and candied peel.

2. 2

   Work into a dough with eggs and sour cream.

3. 3

   Add soda mixture before baking.

4. 4

   Divide and bake in a moderate oven, then crisp.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1621. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Busks made with Sour Cream.— Rub five ounces of butter into a pound of flour till it is as fine as oatmeal. Add a pinch of salt, four table-spoonfuls of powdered sugar, and two ounces of candied peel finely shred. Work this into a smooth lithe dough with two well- beaten eggs and a little more than half a pint of thick sour cream. At the last moment before baking the cakes add half a tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda mixed with a tea-spoonful of powdered sugar and a tea-spoonfid of flour

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