Lead Cake

Ingredients

• two quarts of flour
• one ounce of salt
• two and a half ounces of sugar
• two pounds of butter
• twelve eggs
• half a pound of butter

Method

1. 1

   Make a well in flour, fill with salt, sugar, butter, and eggs.

2. 2

   Mix well, roll out three times, add milk if too thick.

3. 3

   Leave for half an hour, add more butter, roll out four times, fold into a thick cake, cut edges, prick top, egg wash, and bake for an hour and a half.

As published

This recipe was extracted from 366 menus and 1200 recipes of the Baron Brisse in French and English (1884) by Brisse, L©♭on baron, page 46. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lead cake. Lead cake, Take two quarts offlour, make a wellin the centre, and fillit with one ounce of salt, two and a half ounces of sugar, two pounds of butter, and twelve eggs, mix well together and roll out the paste three times, if too thick add a little milk ; leave the paste on a wooden slab for half an hour, then add half a pound of butter

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