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Queen's Tea Cakes

From Cassell's dictionary of cookery, 1892

Serves 1

Probable cost: Is. 3d. for this quantity.

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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This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1416. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Queen's Tea Cakes. — Take the weight of two eggs in fresh butter and beat it to a cream. Mix with it half a pound of powdered /and sifted sugar, which, before being crushed, has been rubbed upon the rind of a large lemon until the yellow part has been taken off, half a pound of dried flour, and a jjinch of salt. Mix the dry ingredients thoroughly, and make them into a' paste by mixing with them the two eggs well beaten, and a little rose-water

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