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Yankee Cakes
From Cassell's dictionary of cookery, 1892
Serves 2
Time to bake is half an hour to three-quarters.
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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As published
This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 2336. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Yankee Cakes.— Beat a cupful of butter to cream, stir into it an equal quantity of sugar, and add a pinch of salt, a flavouring of nutmeg or lemon grated, two well- whisked eggs, and a tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda which has been dissolved in a cupful of sour milk. Mix these ingredients thoroughly, and stir into the mixture as much flour as will make a stiff batter
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