Ramazan Cakes

Ingredients

• half a pound of rice-flour
• two glasses of milk
• Add sugar to taste
• a few drops of extract of roses or of jessamine
• sprinkle it with fine sugar

Method

1. 1

   Dilute rice-flour with milk, sieve into a stewpan, and boil while stirring.

2. 2

   Add sugar, reduce for 7-8 minutes, then add extract.

3. 3

   Pour onto a moistened baking sheet, smooth to 1 inch thick.

4. 4

   Once cold, sprinkle with sugar and cut into small cakes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1473. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Ramazan Cakes (a Turkish recipe).— Take half a pound of rice-flour, and dilute it with two glasses of milk ; pass the preparation through a sieve into a stewpan. Boil over a moderate fire, stirring all the time. Add sugar to taste, let it reduce for seven or eight minutes, then add a few drops of extract of roses or of jessamine, turn it out on a round baking-sheet, previously moistened with cold water. Let the preparation be nearly an inch in thickness, and smooth its surface. When it is cold, sprinkle it with fine sugar

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