Love Cakes

Ingredients

• four eggs
• a small tea-cupful of good yeast
• half a pint of warm milk
• a pound and a half of flour
• a pound of butter
• half a pound of sifted sugar

Method

1. 1

   Beat the eggs with the yeast and warm milk.

2. 2

   Make a hollow in the flour, add the mixture, and stir into a dough.

3. 3

   Beat the dough, gradually add the butter, let it rise for an hour, mix in the sugar, and bake in small buttered cake-pans.

4. 4

   Decorate with candied orange or lemon-peel.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 867. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Love Cakes. — Beat up four eggs with a small tea-cupful of good yeast and half a pint of wai-m milk. Make a hollow in the centre of a pound and a half of flour, throw in the mixture, and stir aU together into a dough ; beat this dough, and put to it by degrees a K LOZ (092) MAC pound of 'butter, and when thoroughly kneaded let it stand an horn- to rise, then mix •with it half a pound of sifted sugar

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