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Macdonald Cakes

From The encyclopædia of practical cookery, 1890

Serves 3

Presented as published in 1890. 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 The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 5. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Macdonald Cakes. — Rub 6oz. of butter into -Jib. of pastry- flour ; add 1 teaspoonful of cream of tartar, J teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda, 1 teacupful of cornflour, 3 teacupfuls of sugar, and 1 toaspoonful of essence of lemon or other flavour- ing. Mix well together and make it into a stiff dough with the whites and yolks of four eggs beaten separately and sufficient milk

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.