Wormwood Cakes

Name: Wormwood Cakes
Ingredients: one pound of double-refin’d sugar sifted; the whites of three or four eggs; as much chymical oil of wormwood as you please

From Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine, 1886

Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine (1886) by William Carew Hazlitt, page 41. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Wormwood Cakes: — Take one pound of double-re fin’d sugar sifted ; mix it with the whites of three or four eggs well beat ; into this drop as much chymical oil of wormwood as you please

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