Cheapest Coffee Cake

Ingredients

• 2 pounds light bread dough
• 4 ounces sugar
• 4 ounces butter or lard
• 1 egg

Method

1. 1

   Take the dough at noon and mix in the ingredients all slightly warm.

2. 2

   Knead it on the table with flour sufficient.

3. 3

   Set to rise until 4 o'clock.

4. 4

   Knead it again by spreading it out on the table with the knuckles, folding over and repeating.

5. 5

   Roll it out to sheets scarcely thicker than a pencil, place on baking pans, brush over with either water or melted lard or milk.

6. 6

   Rise about an hour.

7. 7

   Score the cakes with a knife point as you put them in the oven to prevent the crust puffing up.

8. 8

   Bake about 15 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 86. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cheapest Coffee Cake. 2 pounds light bread dough — 4 cups large. 4 ounces sugar — J cup. 4 ounces butter or lard — J cup 1 egg

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