Wasps' Nest Cakes

Ingredients

• six ounces of fresh butter
• one egg
• three yolks
• two spoonfuls of yeast
• three spoonfuls of milk
• half a pound of flour
• currants
• chopped almonds
• sugar
• cinnamon

Method

1. 1

   Beat butter, egg, and yolks.

2. 2

   Add yeast, milk, and flour to make a paste.

3. 3

   Roll out thin, cut into strips, strew with currants, almonds, sugar, and cinnamon.

4. 4

   Roll strips up, butter a tin, and bake slowly.

5. 5

   Strew with sugar and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 2240. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Wasps' Nest Cakes. — Beat up six ounces of fresh butter, one egg, and three yolks. Add two spoonfuls of yeast, three spoonfuls of milk, and half a pound of flour. iSliike the mixture into a paste, roll it out thin, cut it into strips twelve fingers long, and three broad. Strew thickly with currants, chopped almonds, sugar, and cinnamon

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