Taylor Cakes

Ingredients

• ilb. of butter
• 3^ breakfast-cupfuls of pastry-flour
• 1 teaspoonful of cream of tartar
• 1 teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda
• 2£ breakfast-cupfuls of sugar
• i pint of milk
• three eggs

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter into the pastry-flour, add the cream of tartar, bicarbonate of soda, sugar, milk, and eggs.

2. 2

   Mix well, form into loaves, and bake in a moderate oven for forty-five minutes.

3. 3

   Mask over with icing.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 53. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda in a little cream, and mix with the dough, afterwards adding f teaspoonful of tartaric acid dissolved in a little cream. Season with ground mace or wine, make into small Cakes, and bake on buttered baking-sheets. Taylor Cakes. — Eub into 3^ breakfast- cupfuls of pastry-flour ilb. of butter ; add 1 teaspoonful of cream of tartar, | tea- spoonful of bicarbonate of soda, 2£ breakfast-cupfuls of sugar, and flavouring to taste. Beat all together with i pint of milk and three eggs

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.