Maple Sugar Cakes

Ingredients

• a piece of butter the size of an egg
• 2 cups of flour
• an even teaspoon of salt
• a heaping teaspoon of home-made baking powder
• a cup of maple sugar coarsely sliced from the cake
• a teacup of sweet milk

Method

1. 1

   Rub a piece of butter the size of an egg into 2 cups of flour, then add an even teaspoon of salt, well pulverized; again add a heaping teaspoon of home-made baking powder; stir all together thoroughly.

2. 2

   Have on hand a cup of maple sugar coarsely sliced from the cake.

3. 3

   Have the oven hot and a baking tin well buttered; add a teacup of sweet milk to the flour and stir quickly.

4. 4

   If the dough is not thick enough add a trifle more of flour; put in the sugar and stir again.

5. 5

   Roll out and cut with the biscuit cutter; place on the tin and put in the oven.

6. 6

   The oven should be hot enough to bake them brown in 10 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household cook book (1902) by Smiley, James B[ethuel],, page 298. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MAPLE SUGAR CAKES. Rub a piece of butter the size of an egg into 2 cups of flour, then add an even teaspoon of salt, well pulver- ized; again add a heaping teaspoon of home=made bak- ing powder; stir all together thoroughly. Have on hand a cup of maple sugar coarsely sliced from the cake. (Place the cake of sugar on a tin and put in the hot oven until it is soft enough to cut.) Have the oven hot and a baking=tin well buttered; add a teacup of sweet milk

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