Wafers

Ingredients

• One pint of sifted flour
• a piece of butter the size of a walnut
• half a teaspoonful of salt
• half a cup of warm milk

Method

1. 1

   Rub butter and flour together, and make into dough with half a cup of warm milk.

2. 2

   Beat half an hour with the rolling-pin.

3. 3

   Then take a bit of it no larger than a nut, and roll to the size of a saucer.

4. 4

   They cannot be too thin.

5. 5

   Flour the pans lightly, and bake in a quick oven from five to ten minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The easiest way in housekeeping and cooking (1881) by Helen Stuart Campbell, page 108. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Wafers. One pint of sifted flour ; a piece of butter the size of a walnut ; half a teaspoonful of salt. Rub butter and flour together, and make into dough with half a cup of warm milk

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