Sbort Cafte

Ingredients

• Half a pound of butter
• six ounces of pounded sugar
• the grated rind of half a lemon
• one pound of decorticated wheat-meal

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, add the meal gradually, and lastly the lemon-peel.

2. 2

   Knead on a floured baking sheet to 0.75 inches thick.

3. 3

   Mark out squares before baking.

4. 4

   Bake in a moderately hot oven for 30 minutes.

5. 5

   Let stand for 5 minutes before removing from the sheet.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Soups, savouries, sweets, with a chapter on breads (1889) by Practical housewife, page 40. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sbort Cafte. Half a pound of butter, six ounces of pounded sugar, the grated rind of half a lemon, one pound of decorticated wheat- meal

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