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Portuguese Cakes

From Cassell's dictionary of cookery, 1892

Serves 3

No specific serving size mentioned.

Presented as published in 1892. 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 Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1303. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Portuguese Cakes. — Beat haK a pound of fresh butter to a cream. Add half a pound of powdered and sifted sugar, half a pound of fine flour, and the yolks of five eggs. Beat the ingredients thoroughly, and mix in gradually a table-spoonful of orange-flower water, a glass of sherry, four ounces of picked and dried currants

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