Cymbals

Ingredients

• Half a pound of sugar
• % lb. of butter
• two eggs
• one nutmeg
• one teaspoonful of soda
• half a tea-cupful of sour milk
• enough flour to make a dough

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, add eggs, nutmeg, and soda dissolved in milk.

2. 2

   Mix in flour to make a soft dough, roll out, cut into cakes, sprinkle with sugar, and bake quickly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 58. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cymbals CAKES Egg-yolk Rings out as much of the crumb as possi- ble. Have a pint of boiled custard made in the ordinary way, but with the addition of two teaspoonfuls of flour, which will insure its being sufficiently thick. When this is quite cold, and just before serving, fill the rolls with it. The addition to the custard of four large bananas, mashed up with a silver fork, is a pleasing variation. Another way is to fill the rolls with whipped cream. Cymbals. — Half a pound of sugar, % lb. of butter, two eggs, one nutmeg, one teaspoonful of soda, half a tea- cupful of sour milk. Cream the but- ter, and add the sugar to it. Then add the eggs, beaten separately and very light ; then grate in the nut- meg, and pour in the soda dissolved in the milk. Then add enough flour to make a dough

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