Girdle Cake

Ingredients

• three ounces of fresh butter
• one pound of flour
• a pinch of salt
• as much butter-milk or cream as will make a stiff paste

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter into the flour, add salt, and enough buttermilk or cream to make a stiff paste.

2. 2

   Roll out thin and cut into small round cakes.

3. 3

   Bake on a girdle over the fire, turning to cook both sides.

4. 4

   Bake for five to six minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 611. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Girdle Cake. — Kub three ounces of fresh butter into one pound of Hour; add a pinch of salt, and as much butter-milk or cream as will make a stiff paste

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