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Tea Cake, No. 2

From Virginia Cookery-book, 1884

Serves 10

Buttermilk can be used instead of yeast flour.

Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

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.

Tea Cake, No. 2. Three pints of flour, with which Horsford Powder has been incorporated in the regular proportion, three teacup- fuls of sugar, a piece of butter the size of an eggy and one nutmeg

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