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Funeral Buns

From Consult me, 1902

Serves 16

Each cake weighs 1 lb. before baking.

Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Consult me (1902) by Robert Kemp Philp, page 228. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FUNERAL BUNS.- Take 2 stones of flour, 1 lb. of butter, and 1 lb. of sugar, rubbed together, 3 lbs. of cur- rants, ginger, seeds, cinnamon, and a little rose-water mixed up with milk. The above will make 48 cakes, at three- pence per cake, each weighing 1 lb. be- fore they are baked. Make them round, and bake them a fine brown. They will take 1 pint of yeast

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