Short Paste

Ingredients

• One pound of flour
• four ounces of butter
• quarter of an ounce of baking powder
• two ounces of white sugar
• the yolks of two eggs
• quarter of a pint of cream

Method

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   Mix the sugar with the flour, both of which should be very dry, and the sugar finely pounded; then rub in the butter quite fine, adding a pinch of salt; mix with the yolks of eggs, well beaten, and the cream, to make it rather a stiff paste, adding a little more cream, if required, and bake in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Vegetarian cookery (1891) by Martha Brotherton, page 92. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Short Paste. Half a pound of flour, quarter of a pound of butter, one ounce of finely powdered loaf sugar, and quarter of an ounce of baking powder. Mix all well together, with very little water, into a stiff paste, and roll it very thin. No. 367. — Short Paste. One pound of flour, four ounces of butter, quarter of an ounce of baking powder, two ounces of white sugar, the yolks of two eggs, and quarter of a pint of cream

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