Small Cakes

Ingredients

• ljlb. of flour
• ljlb. of butter
• 1 table-spoonful of lard
• ljlb. of fine moist sugar
• 4 table-spoonfuls of powdered cinnamon
• J pint of milk
• 1 teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda

Method

1. 1

   Rub butter into flour, then add sugar and cinnamon, and make into a dough with milk in which bicarbonate of soda has been dissolved.

2. 2

   Roll out the dough thin, cut into shapes, and dip the face of each Cake in granulated sugar.

3. 3

   Bake slowly on greased baking-sheets.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 39. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Small Cakes. - — Into ljlb. of flour rub ljlb. of butter and 1 table-spoonful of lard ; then add ljlb. of fine moist sugar, 4 table-spoonfuls of powdered cinnamon, and make these ingredients into a dough with J pint of milk in which 1 teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda

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