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Shrewsbury Cakes

From Virginia Cookery-book, 1884

Serves 4

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 Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 92. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Shrewsbury Cakbs. Take four eggs; beat them with two spoonfuls of rose- water and three of wine ; one pound of flour well dried, half a pound of butter, and three-quarters of a pound of sugar

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