Cheap White Cakes for Tea

Ingredients

• half a pound of sifted flour
• one ounce of butter
• a quarter of a pound of fine sugar
• one egg
• half a teaspoonful of caraway seeds
• as much milk as will make it a paste

Method

1. 1

   Rub butter into flour, add sugar, egg, caraway seeds, and enough milk to make a paste.

2. 2

   Roll out thin, cut into small round cakes, and bake on tin plates in a quick oven for 10-12 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from La cuisine creole (1885) by Lafcadio Hearn, page 61. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

HEAP WHITE CAKES. FOB TEA. Take half a pound of sifted flour, rub into it one ounce of butter, and a quarter of a pound of fine sugar ; add one egg, half a teaspoonful of caraway seeds, and as mueh milk as will make it a paste

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