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Potato or Lemon Cheesecakes

From Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine, 1886

This quantity will make a dozen small pattipans.

Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine (1886) by William Carew Hazlitt, page 38. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

otato , or Lemon Cheesecakes: — Take six ounces of potatoes, four ounces of lemon-peel, four ounces of sugar, four ounces of butter ; boil the lemon-peel till tender, pare and scrape the potatoes, and boil them tender and bruise them ; beat the lemon-peel with the sugar, then beat all together very well, and melt the butter in a little thick cream

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