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Rusk

From The new Kentucky home cook book, 1884

Serves 12

Miss Phcebe Wood.

Presented as published in 1884. 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 The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 73. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

RUSK. Take one coffee-cupful of lard and butter mixed, beat with one cupful of sugar, beat one egg with another cupful of sugar, one even tea-spoonful of soda, two tea-spoonfuls of salt, sifted with three pints of flour. Use two coffee-cupful^ of potato sponge

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