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Buttermilk Cakes

From Cassell's dictionary of cookery, 1892

Serves 1

Carbonate of ammonia is common smelling-salts.

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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This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 279. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Buttermilk Cakes. — Take one pint of buttermilk, and stir into it as much flour as will form a dough, with one table-spoonful of dissolved carbonate of ammonia

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