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Webster Cakes

From Cassell's dictionary of cookery, 1892

Serves 4

Probable cost: 1s. 8d. for this quantity.

Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 2247. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Webster Cakes. — Beat half a pound of fresh butter to cream. Add haK a pound of powdered white sugar, three-quarters of a pound of sifted flour, a table-si^oonf iil of orange- flower water, a table-spoonful of brandy, four ounces of picked and dried currants, and five well-beaten eggs

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