Small Tea Cakes

Ingredients

• 1 lb. of butter
• 1 lb. of flour
• lb. of sifted loaf sugar
• 1 oz. of caraway seeds

Method

1. 1

   Mix butter into flour and sugar, wet with water.

2. 2

   Divide dough, adding caraway seeds to one half.

3. 3

   Roll thin, cut with a cutter, and bake until light brown.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Consult me (1902) by Robert Kemp Philp, page 485. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 lb. of flour, beat an egg till thin, then melt % lb. of clarified fresh butter to mix with the egg, and when cool, pour the whole into the flour, and form the paste. Roll it thin, make up the tarts, put in the oven, wet them over with a little water, and grate on sugar. * TARTLETS. — Sheet the tartlet pans with puff paste ; put any kind of sweetmeat ; cross bar, and put them into the oven to bake ; when done, put them on paper to soak the butter from the paste. TEA and COFFEE, Substi- tute for. — Take a small handful of agrimony, one handful of blackberry leaves, and a few raspberry leaves, and a small quantity of balm or mint, according to taste ; put it into a jug TEA 386 TES that will hold three pints, then pour on boiling hot water, infuse five minutes, then sweeten. For a change you may use Avens in the same way as agrimony. TEA CAKES.— Take 3 lbs. of flour, 5 ozs. of sugar, 6 ozs. of butter, rubbed into the flour, and a tea-cupful of new balm ; set them to rise with millc and water ; then mix them, to stand half an hour ; make them up, roll them thin, and lay them on tins to rise ; bake them a fine brown in a hot oven ; when they are baked, rub a little butter over them. TEA CAKES. — Rub fine 4 ozs. of butter into 8 ozs. of flour ; mix 8 ozs. of currants, and six of fine sugar, two yolks and one white of egg, and a spoonful of brandy ; roll what size you like ; beat the other white of egg, and wash over them. Dust sugar upon them, if you like. TEA CAKES, Small.— Put a lb. of butter into 1 lb. of flour ; mix lb. of sifted loaf sugar, and wet it with water ; when made up divide into two equal parts ; put 1 oz. of caraway seeds

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