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Rock Cakes

From Wholesome cookery, 1887

Can also be made with different proportions.

Presented as published in 1887. 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 Wholesome cookery (1887) by Marie de Joncourt, page 59. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Rock Cakes. Half a pound of flour, 2 ounces of butter, 2 ounces of currants, 1 tablespoonful of sugar, half a table- spoonful of baking powder. Mix the powder and flour 166 WHOLESOME COOKERY. first; add the sugar and currants, then rub in the butter ; next, enough milk to make it stiff (about 1 teacupful of milk will be sufficient

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